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
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
postponing all public facing royal duties. we ll go live to london. the state of emergency in california as crews race to save people and pets from flash floods triggered by a monster storm with up to 8 trillion gallons of rain expected to fall. the dramatic new images just coming in. the growing pr disaster for boeing. first it was a mid flight blow out. now it s misdrilled holes. what the faa is saying today about those 737 max planes. plus, will the fifth time be the charm? secretary of state antony blinken returns to the middle east with hopes for a new gaza truce that could lead to the release of hostages. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments and we begin with nbc s meagan fitzgerald who is outside buckingham palace with the breaking news on the king s health. what do we know at this hour? reporter: chris, according to buckingham palace, we understand that as the king was undergoing treatment about a week and a half ago for a benign
the lead with jake tapper starts now. donald trump and his presidential immunity claim was rejected today by three federal judges. the lead starts right now. a major blow to citizen donald trump as the dc federal appeals court denies his presidential immunity defense, a conservative former judge is taking us inside the ruling and his take on what may play out if donald trump takes the case to the u.s. supreme court where he appointed three other justices. frustration from capitol hill all the way to the border with a bipartisan immigration bill on the brink of collapse. independent arizona senator kiersten cinema helped write the bill and we will speak with her about what options, if any, are left. the mother of a school shooter in michigan found guilty today of involuntary manslaughter, how this case may set a president nationwide. welcome to the lead, i am jake tapper, a massive legal defeat for donald trump, a federal appeals court in dc unanimously ruled that he
i said, thank you very much. i knew exactly what he meant. 2 million lives. that is perhaps the most important admission from donald trump last night, again bragging about being the one to eliminate a constitutional right for women s health care that has stood for over 50 years. and here s donald trump s problem, is he goes into, i would call it softball, a softball event. i ve never seen one as fawning. i m not even sure, why did they have two hosts there? they could have just had one, sit there and smile and say, you re great. great. ask another softball question. it s like t-ball. he swung, hit the tee, and the ball rolled off. he bragged, katty, about terminating roe v. wade. he said, if it weren t for me, that 10-year-old girl in ohio that was raped by an illegal immigrant, if it weren t for me, she wouldn t have had to flee the state. if it weren t for me, women wouldn t be, like, dying outside of emergency rooms because doctors are afraid to conduct women s he