There is a possibility they may see some opportunity for some immunity for some president ial decisions. If they decide it that way, it may have to go back down to the District Court which could cause further delay. I appreciate you not being sidetracked by somebody who apparently wants to scream louder than anybody else. Catherine, the lower courts have been unanimous that trump cannot claim immunity. Does that tell you something . I cant imagine theyre going to say a former president has absolute immunity for criminal acts. What will be a win for donald trump is if theyre saying were sending it back to judge chutkan to determine which, if any he would have immunity for and which he would not. Thats a win because that would delay the trial, which is already delayed. So what of course obviously jack smith and Special Counsel is hoping for, a majority of the court will just say, no, absolute immunity from Criminal Prosecution for a former president and clearly jack smith would say this
The Us Supreme Court or historic arguments are about to unfold testing former president Donald Trumps unprecedented claim of absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for his attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat. The hub couldnt determine if the Presumptive Republican president ial nominees federal election subversion trial happens before this year is 2024. Election or at all . Im Kaitlan Collins outside of the high court and im Anderson Cooper over looking at Manhattan Criminal Courthouse while the Supreme Court hears trumps 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 president ial campaign the leadoff witness, former National Enquirer executive david pecker resumes his testimony soon, recovering. Both of these monumental cases in the hours ahead. Im jake tapper in washington and this is cnn Special Coverage, the trump Immunity Battle at the Us Supreme Court ab
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 trumps base. The campaign reported that they had raised nearly 6 million over a fiveday period leading up to this weeks 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 want to talk abo
you know, subpoenas flying or that kind of conduct and often there will be informal conversations, now, look, this the conversation here was not memorialized, i believe. it wasn t sworn, which might raise eyebrows but, again, it s simply not uncommon in law enforcement. so not uncommon there. there are also questions about attorney/client privilege, right? if this is the president s personal attorney could that come into play? well, you know, there s an explanation for why the president s attorney was the one doing the search, perhaps and pure speculation here that they were expecting to find attorney/client privileged documents which is why they have him doing the search. you couldn t have white house staff doing it because this isn t the work of the government. this is essentially the work of president biden s former i guess the private citizen if you want to call it that.
races so you look on the marginal visits and you look at endorsements of someone or anti-endorsement in the case that oprah winfrey is saying and it could be impactful. neil: and again, i don t know the impact of endorsements from celebrities like an oprah, all of these former presidents. you know this far better than i. i am curious though, pennsylvania is rather maybe kind isn t the work, okay reaction to fetterman s performance in that debate. to almost everyone watched it, it was pretty tough to watch. they ve been understanding, they understand what he s been through and maybe they ve extended that to wishing the best for him for the election, but i thought there would be more of a fallout. are you surprised so far and you re quite right to point out that the lead isn t what it was, it s been reversed in some cases, what do you make of that? yeah, and neil, it wasn t a good performance for the lt. governor, but of course, the