and could face no criminal accountability or prosecution, unless he was first successfully impeached and convicted. could a president ordered s. e. a. l. team six to assassinate a political rival? that s an official act, in order to s. e. a. l. team six? he would have to be, and would speedily be impeached and convicted before the criminal prosecution. but if you weren t? there would be no criminal prosecution, no criminal liability for that? in the chief justices opinion and our constitution, and in the plain language of the impeachment judgment clause, all clearly presuppose that what the founders were concerned about was not. i asked you a yes or no question. could a president who ordered s. e. a. l. team six to assassinate a political rival, who was not impeached, could he be subject to criminal prosecution? if he were impeached and convicted first. so your answer is? my answer is qualified yes. it was always clear that these weren t particularly s
is critical. it really is. look, you know, to the survivors and families, jill and i, my wife jill is not here today with me. she is in delaware right now. she had to go back up. jill and i have gotten to know many of you over the years. some of us have become friends for a long time. we ve kept in touch. mark, it s good to see you again and your family, and the losses may be different, circumstances, but we ve shared before us something that s helped our family. when my wife and daughter were killed in a tractor-trailer struck them, just after i got elected, my two boys weren t expected to live, and then later when my son beau, who was the attorney general and volunteered to spend a year in iraq died, stage 4, glioblastoma. my daughter ashley taped a message to the mirror, the way everything gets to me through my wife and daughter now is they know i have to shave in the morning, so they ll tape on the mirror, for real. so i see it when i m shaving. one day she left me a quot
you are watching symone. president joe biden holding true to his words, the south declared union man spoke to labor groups and philadelphia today. for his first rally of the 2020 campaign is not on the campaign trail this weekend. but he still getting a lot of attention anyway, after being arraigned on a criminal indictments in a florida courtroom this week. some of the republicans vying for the nomination even saying they will pardon him if elected. what kind of strategy is that? plus, juneteenth, we are marking the third anniversary of the federal holiday with a special at the national museum of african american history and culture. i spoke to director kevin young, we unpacked the significant events, people, and places that led to june 19th, 1865 and what we now commemorate as a big federal holiday juneteenth. i m simone sanders townsend, and i have something to say. another busy week to discuss. it started with the former president appearing in court for his second crimi
i-95, the highway remains closed in both directions to traffic, firefighters are trying to extinguish an ongoing fire that you can see there, we will bring you more on the updates as soon as we get them on the story. straight ahead, we are going to miami for a report on what to expect ahead of trump s arraignment on tuesday. plus, the twice impeached now twice indicted president, is telling his followers that the justice department is not just coming after him, it s coming after them to. i m going to talk to the person who literally wrote the book on authoritarian strongman about his dangerous line of attack, another hour of velshi begins right now. right now. good morning, i m ali velshi, in today s trump suspected to surrender himself to authorities in a miami courthouse where he will be arraigned on a 37 count indictment regarding his mishandling of government records and obstruction of justice. it will be the second time in about two months that the twice impeached former
this sunday night, don t miss a whole new episode of the story. 15 years, the miracle on the hudson. we ll talk to the former airline pilot sullenberger and passengers who survived the emergency landing here in new york s hudson river after birds crippled the airbus two engines. one whole hour, one whole story this sunday 8:00 p.m. eastern pacific only on cnn. the news continues, the source with kaitlan collins starts now. the supreme court agrees to take on one of the biggest cases in american history. whether donald trump can be kicked off the ballot in colorado just ten days before the first votes of the 2024 election are cast. plus, president biden condemning donald trump while marking the third anniversary of january 6. people died because of trump s lies and so could democracy. also the long-time leader of the nra resigning on the eve of his corruption trial. but wayne lapierre s exit could mean to the fight over guns in america. i m kaitlan collins, and this i