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all in with chris hayes starts right now. tonight on all in. good present order seal team six to assassinate a political rival? history inside a d.c. courtroom. i asked you yesterday question. could a president who ordered seal team six to assassinate a political rival who was not impeached, could he be subject to criminal prosecution? the united ex president claims complete immunity. i think qualified, yes if he s impeached and convicted. first trump s criminal attorney is confronted with trump s impeachment defense. after he s out of office, they re gonna arrest him. the arguments, the implications, and the timetable for a republican front-runner running to stay out of jail. plus, starting new evidence of the ongoing coup as we learn of harrowing new threats to trump s prosecutor and judge. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. history made in front of the entire country today. at least we can all hear it, if not s
or so, i think but there are scenarios where if she decides, after it sent back down, when she decides what the result should be, he may have another run at some kind of a delay, and of course that s always primaries, second of course being a lousy legal argument he is propounding. how do you think the lawyers did today? i thought soured, he s said that he needed to do but i think he chose a very bad line. you showed him it is worse just down. a judge asked to a yes or no or question, you say yes or no. and i thought for his part a lot of jurors said it wasn t michael pearce was fine. he argued for half the time, literally. they were all low or a twice as much time.
that s the frightening future. that will shake a republic for the future. just a really classic trumpian propagandist lie right there, casually winning in every poll, said almost as stipulated aside that no one can rebut. clearly comes directly from trump. that is the kind of thing the boss wants to hear. he sits there while three judges where his potential freedom. entire argument from his legal team, all of it today, was just about as chilling a warning as to what is at stake in this election as anything we ve encountered this fire, which is saying something, save for the actual bloody spectacle of january 6th. today s arguments were clearly a test. they felt like that in the moment. you could feel it. is this going to hold? are the guardrails of democracy still in place? or is trump going to be allowed to become the dictator he s always dreamed of being, free from any legal accountability? everyone in that room today, i hazard to say, understood that
powers issue they would create enough controversy airy and they might pose a question for the supreme court. i don t think they do that. a smart lawyer i talked to about this today made this statement, said i said what s up with all the impeachment staff? and she said it s a fallback position. the argument in the brief is, you can t do anything. if it s an official act, tough luck, buddy. which means if he tells seal team six to go assassinate his political rival they couldn t argue that because it s so ludicrous. so now they ve got this fall back impeachment division. it s just worth playing because it s the classic trump thing. and one venue the argument is like, this is the event. and the other venue, it s not the venue now. here s trump s lawyer. during impeachment, assuring the senators, look, if if you go get a phone to convict, he can of course go get arrested