Teams prior claim that he cant be prosecuted even if he assassinated, killed, assassinated his political rivals. Could a president who ordered s. E. A. L. Team six to assassinate a political rival, who was not impeached, would he be subject to criminal prosecution. If he were impeached and convicted first so your answer is no. Today trumps lawyers argued, quote, a former president enjoys absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for his official acts. They also tried to argue that Holding President accountable for his crimes would somehow cripple the office. Quote, a denial of criminal immunity would incapacitate every future president with De Facto Black Mail and extorsion. The key to trumps argument is his claim that trying to overturn the election was part of his official Amitriptyline Acts as president , a claim that is absolute nonsense. Trumps filing comparing january 6th to clintons airstrikes in the middle east, bushs search for weapons of mass destruction and even president
classified material to people including a military plan of attack against an unnamed country. trump is accused of directing a aide to move documents out of a security room for an fbi subpoena. the doj also claiming trump suggested to his lawyer that they should hide or destroy the documents. the former president will appear in federal court tuesday in miami and is proclaiming his innocence. tremendous support. that was a hoax and a scam, and now they are doing it again. it is just a continuation. seven years. i m an innocent man. i did nothing wrong. and we ll fight this out just like we have been fighting for seven years. it would be wonderful if we could devote our full time to making america great again. jesse: special counsel jack smith breaking his silence, but not taking questions on why he decided to indict trump. our nation s commitment to the rule of law sets an example for the world. we have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone. it is ve
united states and around the world, i am coming to you live. today on the program the mess at the mexican border, it might get worse, much worse. this week, u.s. authorities lost the authority to expel migrants from land borders. officials are expecting an onslaught. i will talk to former homeland security secretary jay johnson about the problem and solutions. also, the clock is ticking. treasury secretary yellin says america may go into default in just 18 days. there is little doubt such an event would badly hurt the u.s. economy and sully america s standing abroad. i will get the view from london with martin wolf of the financial towns. then after 12 years of civil war and more than 300,000 civilians dead, syria and its infamous leader are back in the arab league. what is going on? i will ask a regional expert. but first, here is my take. the tragic mass shooting in the suburb of dallas, texas took place as i was leaving the country to visit written. i might as well have
good to be with you, i m katy tur, as chris jansing just said, we are waiting for police in louisville, kentucky, to update us on the latest mass shooting four dead and nine are wounded at the old national bank sources tell nbc news the shooter is believed to be a current or former employee of the bank it was unclear how the shooter died the question is what does or does not happen now? kentucky is a split state. it has two republican senators, rand paul and mitch mcconnell, who sent tweets offering a version of thoughts and prayers. while its governor is a democrat, a democrat who is now not just professionally affected by gun violence, but personally. here is governor andy beshear in front of the bank this morning. this is awful i have a very close friend that didn t make it today and i have another close friend who didn t either, and one who s at the hospital who i hope is going to make it through joining me now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken de
publicizing what the state deemedukraine. that the government decides, you know, if this journalistic account about russia s war in ukraine is false or not, and if they think it s false, they put you in jail. so it s a joke, frankly, jo journ journalistically, it s sad for russia and for russians what vladimir putin is doing here and how much he s discrediting russia. many journalists for major os have gone through training, what will you do if you re kidnapped. i went through it. very different situation than actually living it, which you did. what is evan facing right now? he it s a funny, you know, thing. he feels terrible for his family i know that might sound strange, but you know, he loves reporting. i was reporting afghanistan many years ago and the taliban held me for seven months, and you know, he s like telling the truth. he s actually trying to i think help the russian people by reporting on the ground there and taking a risk, but showing how much th