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
could, in the end, be meaningless. according to reporting in politico reinhart carefully reviewed signing off and considers the affidavit to be reliable. judge reinhart also notes that donald trump s legal team has not at this point filed anything, anything at all in the legal battle over the affidavit that is despite their public demands that the affidavit be made public in all of their bluster and extreme rhetoric about a supposed lack of transparency from doj. rhetoric that, of course, has led to a surge in threats against doj and the fbi. team trump s total silence on the issue in court raises even more questions about what politico terms the throw everything against the wall response to the search itself. they write this. trump and his team have not yet settled on a single approach about what may come, in. trump has often used litigation to delay and has loathed to go on offense particularly when he s likely to lose. while it is unclear whether the former president or an
Congressman thompson. Thank you so much. Well, thank you. And thank you for mentioning the first responders. The community has been fantastic. First responders are real heroes and heroines. They are out there everyday and their life is on the line for their community. Thank you, anderson. Than you, congressman. We wish you the best. The news continues right now. I want to hand it over to chris. Cuomo prime time starts now. Thank you, anderson. I am chris cuomo, and welcome to prime time. The gop primary for governor in kansas should have been a hohum race, that is until President Trump got involved and went against the gop incumbent in favor of kris kobach. Yes, that State Official who helped trump with that fugazi voter fraud panel. Well, the race is now a hotbed of controversy. It is too close to call. Then kobach declared victory. Then his lead was cut, and an official is blaming the Secretary Of State for getting it wrong in favor of kobach. The Secretary Of State is kris
kobach, a
Well, thank you. And thank you for mentioning the first responders. The community has been fantastic. First responders are real heroes and heroines. Thank you, anderson. We wish you the best. The news continues right now. I want to hand it over to chris. Cuomo prime time starts now. Thank you, anderson. I am chris cuomo, and welcome to prime time. The gop primary for governor in kansas should have been a hohum race, that is until President Trump got involved and went against the gop incumbent in favor of kris kobach. Yes, that State Official who helped trump with that fugazi voter fraud panel. Well, the race is now a hotbed of controversy. It is too close to call. Then kobach declared victory. Then his lead was cut, and an official is blaming the Secretary Of State for getting it wrong in favor of kobach. The Secretary Of State is kris kobach, and his office would oversee what seems like a
certain recount. So everyone is talking about what he will do. We are talking to kris kobach. Hel
not insane and using the trump playbook and the fund-raising apparatus was always two-pronged, right? one is it was grassroots and bottom up and from wealthier country club donors and they re not opening their checkbooks for these insane candidates and guess what s happening with the grassroots money. the nrsc, i can tell them where their money is. it s down in mar-a-lago. trump has raised tens of millions of dollars this cycle with his fake his attackses on the fbi and his fake arguments about the 2020 election and all of his complaints and any of us on the republican campaign list and let s get all of the emails and texts from donald trump. he s hoarding all that money. he s not using it to help blake masters in arizona or to help dr. oz. all he wanted to do was punish the people that didn t want to go along with his lie and so the republicans are dealing with you