thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with katie phang in for ari starts right now. hi, katie. thanks, nicole. i think extraordinary is an understatement these days, but thank you, i appreciate it. have a good show. thanks. and welcome to the beat, i m katie phang in for ari melber. the supreme court today handing down a win for donald trump in his federal insurrection case. a consequential decision that will affect presidential power for years to come, ruling that trump has immunity for some of his official conduct as president but not for private, unofficial acts. here s how that played out. the high court has just issued one of its most consequential rulings in decades. the president has absolute immunity for core constitutional powers, however, not for unofficial acts. five alarm fire. supreme court has decreed him a king. how the justices rule could well define the parameters
ongoing. i think it is also important to say that, you know, there is an argument from the white house that is completely spee shous. when they fain the outrage at the hip pocksy of the democrats, that should be put aside. that is just propaganda and it is ridiculous because the grain of truth in that is exactly what rosenstein writes in his letter. you ask my career prosecutor or law enforcement figure who has not been politicized, they will tell you the way comey handled himself in the clinton investigation was to throw justice department procedures over the rail. it was completely inappropriate. but that does not justify there is no way that would be a reason why the president decided to fire jim comey now. let s remember, candidate trump threatened to put hillary clinton in jail. that was his commitment to justice department ideals, to threaten his political opponent in such a way.
house. adding to this, lenny. i want to show you a quick tweet had he put out on november 3rd, 2016. it reads this. looking at air force one at mia. why is he campaigning instead of creating jobs and fixing obamacare? get back to work for the american people. a lot of democrats are saying get to work here, mr. president? and they are. they will say that. some of that will be politically driven. it does seem obviously rather of that s the word i was going for. has a tinge of hip pocksy. hypocrisy. does him having five or six
extension he s right isn t he? this is a hip pocksy is it not? that is why this government shut down. that is a wonderful spin. the government shut down because speaker john boehner refused to pass all of these attachments. we said delay. the last offer. preez brlease brad be honest. the last deal was to delay it. and we are now having a real conversation about delaying, i should say extending the enrollment period. it puts pressure on the administration. it should be extended so we are going to have to produce it or feel he the wrath of the voters. the president really tried to shift this to immigration
and everyone find a way not to be successful. i think we ll have to wait for the results. i will say this, this is the best shot all the countries had in a long, long time. jenna: claudia, you ve been at the u.n., and covering this event this week. the president of iran was at a non-proliferation meeting this morning. we have the meeting with the foreign minister, secretary of state this afternoon. how do you see this entire week being orchestrated? who we actually in a position now where the two side can work on a deal? this new president of iran is the same old wine even in not a very different bottle, actually. he is giving us a different set of things, he s more personable than ahmadinejad which is a very low bar and still works for alico main any the supreme leader. the speckel of this morning his stepping up to speak on a conference of nuclear disarmament was one of the most staggering displays of hip pocksy at the u.n. and that is where hp hypocrisy is the norm.