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
democrat could get, if they would say that a democrat could get a fair trial, bear. the answer is yes, because we will get fair trials all over the country. and the idea that merely because there s a political split that people dead things, criminal justice system falls apart is just nonsense. well, that s a good note to end on. we could talk about this all day, but our time is up. thanks to our panel. thanks to you for being here. i m kasie hunt. don t go anywhere. cnn news central it s right now this morning we will hear from donald hold trump, the convicted felon, holds a news conference. we might also hear from president biden for the first time since the verdict this new chapter in american history a new, video this morning of the moment, ukrainian drones attack and destroy russian boats, the strike coming as president biden gives you crane, the okay to use us weapons to kill carry out strikes on russian soil. and a police officer ambushed and killed by the very pe
good day. 2:00 p.m. eastern, 11:00 a.m. pacific, i m jose diaz-balart in today for chris jansing. we are following multiple big stories including a push by donald trump to get his classified documents case thrown out. the battle over special counsel jack smith s authority and why there are also questions swirling about the judge. plus, donald trump s veep stakes enters the home stretch. the top three contenders who have emerged from a list that once included 20 names. and breaking news from the supreme court, the major decision on whether domestic abusers should be able to own or have a gun. and the one justice who dissented from the other eight. but we begin here in florida where the trump appointed judge overseeing the former president s classified documents case is growing under some scrutiny for holding hearing after hearing after hearing without ever even setting a trial date. and it s happening again today. judge aileen cannon holding what will be the first of multi
key piece of the trumpian republican strategy is to stoke the same lies they pushed in 2020. you would think that after charges were brought against a former president at the federal level and against many of his acolytes in five different states, that they might try a different approach. maybe cut it out. instead, four years later the same old dog is relying on the same old tricks. this time the language is getting darker. listen to how trump talked about the election over the weekend. the radical left democrats rigged the presidential election in 2020 and we will not allow them to rake the presidential election in 2024. listen, we don t need votes. we have more votes than anybody has ever had. we need to watch the vote. we need to guard the vote and stop the steal. don t worry about voting. just worry about guarding the vote. stopping the steal, his favorite phrase. is daughter-in-law/rnc cochair seemed to go even further. we are sending a loud and clear message to an
we re going to get our first public glimpse of princess catherine since christmas. what the palace said today about her cancer battle and her plans to try and resume some of her royalty duties. but leading this hour yesterday, today and for the next two weeks, the us supreme court will dominate the political conversation in this country. today, it s a major guns decision. the justices ruling six to three to strike down a federal ban on bump stocks. the ban was initially approved by donald trump 2018 after the massacre at a las vegas music festival, you might remember a gunman killed 58 people at the outdoor concert when he set up perch on the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay hotel and open fire for at least ten minutes by the time police breached the room, they say the shooter was dead, but they found 23 weapons in the room 12 with firearms, with bump stocks attached. that attack, by the way, is the deadliest mass shooting in modern american history. so i know some of you are p