on this point. i am quoting here, we cannot except former president trump s claim that a president has unbounded authority to commit crimes. and we neutralize the most fundamental check on the executive power, in recognition, an implementation of election results. and going on to say, nor can we sanctioned his apparent contention that the executive has carte blanche to violate the rights of individual citizens to vote, and to have their votes count. the court throwing out trump s arguments that he should not have to go on trial, on federal election subversion charges. charges that you would expect, vowing to appeal to the supreme court. but he only has until monday to decide whether he can do that. let s talk right now with cnn analyst, norm eisen, and prosecutor, joe moreno. i m so happy that both of you are here today. first of all, we have been talking about this for the better part of a month, norm. the fact that it took this long, it s perhaps a surprising announcement.
good evening, everyone. i am ayman mohyeldin. is seven pm here on the east coast, which means the polls are now officially close. tonight s primary contests, marking the first official primary for democrats and in the first time that president joe biden s name appeared on a ballot this election season. now, alongside him on the ballot, democratic rivals, congressman dean phillips and marianne williamson. steve kornacki is live for us from washington prepared to break down the results for us. any moment now, as soon as we get them. however, to be clear, the nights outcome is all but decided. biden stands as the overwhelming favorite tonight in the state. and what we really want to watch out for you tonight is how many delegates he leaves south carolina with. a total of 55 will be awarded proportionally based on tonight s outcome. a candidate needs a total of nearly 2000 delegates to capture the democratic nomination. meanwhile, breaking news overseas tonight. the u.s. and uk l
Lago. La surrounding himself with donors and potential Vice President ial picks. Many of them going on the Sunday Talk Shows today touting him as president. The amount of talent that we have in the Republican Party is extraordinary. He has a bunch of choices for cabinet. He will have an Extraordinary Group of talented people that can serve this country. If the election was held today, trump would be winning in places where he had success, joe biden is having failure. Were present trump is strong, joe biden has been week. We were excited to have a conversation. Weve had no conversations about the vp pick. Trump used the word to stop to describe the Biden Administration and complaining about his legal troubles. President biden spent a quiet weekend in delaware. His campaign using a less is more strategy. A new poll of registered voters shows a tight race with joe biden leading 1 and that is within the margin of error. The Hush Money Trial resumes tomorrow after an explosive dave testimon
the day a man who spent his life outrunning lawsuits from fellow citizens, civil cases from government officials, regulatory probes, federal probes, congressional inquiries, a record-breaking two impeachments in one presidential term, a historic rico charge and unprecedented two federal indictments, the defendant who outran, delayed accountability on all of those cases over many years, which involved all kinds of evidence of wrongdoing, found he could not outrun a jury of his peers. after two days and more than nine hours of deliberations, they unanimously found him guilty on all counts, as you know by now. a former president convicted of felony crimes for the first time in our nation s history. the news broke, we will be revisiting that tonight and going forward with some very special guests and new information. but this is a time, if there ever were a time, to slow down in our fast-paced lives, in our media, television, rushes forward to the next thing and the next iteratio
Senate Democrats facing tough reelections in 2024 are happy to tout President Biden's achievements, but they're more coy about any plans to appear alongside the unpopular leader of the party in their home states.