Hi there, everyone. It s 4:00 in the east. Where there s smoke, there s usually fire. Repeated denials of any connection between the radical manifesto written by the heritage foundation to send america back to the 1800s and team trump are generating a whole lot of smoke. After the fire brandnew reporting reveals project 2025 are also behind trump s republican party and their official party platform. Abc news reports this, quote, in may the trump campaign and the rnc announced their platform committee leadership team, the senior officials tasked with drafting the republican platform, and russ vought and ed martin as deputy policy director, both have ties to project 2025. As we reported on this program yesterday, vought was a former trump administration staffer, which brings us to the wider point. If you want to look at what trump and his allies plan to do in a second trump term, look at what they sought to do in the first. A key plank of project 2025 is a total transformation of the way
we will hear argument this morning in case 23-939. trump versus the united states. reporter: tonight, new testimony of the alleged criminal conspiracy to help elect donald trump. trump turned to the business at hand and asked david pecker how is our girl. as his argument for absolute immunity finally goes before the supreme court. this court has never recognized absolute criminal immunity for any public official. a private attorney to spearhead his challenges to the election results. what was up with the pardon for president nixon? if everybody thought that presidents couldn t be prosecuted what was that about? if it fails completely it is because we have destroyed our democracy on our own, isn t it? tonight, rachel maddow, nicole wallace, joy reed, chris liz. lawrence o donnell, lisa ruben all here as msnbc s special coverage of trump on trial begins now. who has the time? who has the time? you are telling me that simultaneously, we have nearly three hour
the us supreme court or historic arguments are about to unfold testing former president donald trump s unprecedented claim of absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for his attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat. the hub couldn t determine if the presumptive republican presidential nominee s federal election subversion trial happens before this year is 2024. election or at all? i m kaitlan collins outside of the high court and i m anderson cooper over looking at manhattan criminal courthouse while the supreme court hears trump s immunity case the former president is here in new york city in the midst of his first criminal trial for hush money scheme allegedly aimed at helping his 2016 presidential campaign the leadoff witness, former national enquirer executive david pecker resumes his testimony soon, recovering. both of these monumental cases in the hours ahead. i m jake tapper in washington and this is cnn special coverage, the trump immunity battle at the u
one is first of all, to some degree this has already been a victory for donald trump because this has delayed the start of the trial by jack smith and as a result has put him in the middle of a political campaign. we have a highly divisive electorate, highly divided with republicans on one side, democrats on the other cheering for their respective squads and as a result, it has energized president trump s base. the campaign reported that they had raised nearly $6 million over a five-day period leading up to this week s event. there has already been a victory for him in this. my suspicion is the biden white house is saying we want him to be held to some level of responsibility for actions that he took while in office but not as the president of the united states. but on the other hand he also like the fact that they are out there able to campaign whether as an explicitly political candidate or campaign as the president in his official capacity and talk about the things they wa