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 . Argument for absolute immunity goes before the Supreme Court. This court never recognized criminal immunity for any public official. A private attorney who was willingly to spearhead his challenges to the election results. What was up for the party with president nixon . If everybody thought president s couldnt be prosecuted, then what was that about. If it feels completely,s because we destroyed our own democracy. Rachel maddow, Nicolle Wallace troy reed, lawrence odonnell, ari melber, all here as Msnbc Special Coverage Of Trump On Trial begins. Who has the time . Who has the time . You are telling me that simultaneously we have nearly three hours of Oral Argument at the United States Supreme Court of the former president claiming he is immune from prosecution for any crime he did while president and debt the exact same time he is
it doesn t mean trump is powerless. he clearly still would have to be one of the favorites to win the republican nomination. but, you know, what i m struck by and this word has been used a couple of times is just the diminished element of his stature here. he s in mar-a-lago. he doesn t do anything in public anymore. he launched a presidential campaign, and kind of went quiet. the main thing we know is he had dinner with a white nationalist and holocaust denier. a few media appearances here and there, but the ubiquity of trump was his power to some degree, both on the 2016 campaign and in the white house. now that he doesn t have that ubiquity, i think a lot of these members don t feel any pressure to bow to his interests. now, we did talk, i ll be quick here, our colleague meredith mcgraw at politico talked to people about why he s not going in fuller to mccarthy, he s a little gun shy. they don t want to come out for