Outfront. Next we are following several breaking stories this hour, the Supreme Court agrees to weigh in on whether trump is immune from criminal charges related to january 6, its the heart of trumps defense. Is the dojs case now in trouble, also breaking right now, trump on the hook for 454 million. The clock is ticking because a new york court has just ruled that he cannot get out of putting up the full amount trump is saying he does not have the money, will give all you the details. And inside putins decision to use Nuclear Weapons, the Financial Times tonight, obtaining secret russia intelligence documents showing putin could resort to using nukes just to stop quote aggression. It is a stunning report reporter who broke it will be outfront. So lets go so good evening. Im Erin Burnett Outfront tonight. The Breaking News, the Supreme Court takes up trumps case, the nations highest court tonight saying justices will hear trumps argument that he has absolute immunity for crimes he alle
Could determine whether Fulton County d. A fani willis stays on the case. A final farewell to Alexei Navalny in russia. Loved ones and supporters risk arrest to honor the Opposition Leader as Vladimir Putin further tightens his grip. Hello and thank you for joining us. Im anna cabrera in for Andrea Mitchell. This hour, new developments in two of the four cases facing donald trump whose legal team has taken a strategy of delay. Trump in the courtroom today. The trial schedule is a key part of this hearing. The case has been bogged down by pretrial motions from Donald Trumps attorneys demanding access to sensitive material which jack smith wants to keep sealed for security reasons. Trump is facing 40 criminal charges in the document case, including being part of a scheme to delete Security Video at maralago. Closing arguments are set to begin in Fulton County, georgia, in a battle over whether d. A. Willis will be disqualified from the case there over her relationship with a member of he
investigations into the current president s family. ted lieu, democrat of california, set to orient facts as they exist on earth one. watch. let me ask you a series of basic questions to get facts out to the american people about our system of justice. trump adviser roger stone was convicted in a federal court, correct? that s my recollection. trump donor elliott brady was convicted in a federal court. correct? also my recollection. the attorney general at the time for those two convictions was bill barr, which president nominated bill barr for attorney general? president trump. you were the fbi director for all of those cases at the time. which president nominated you? president trump. okay. what these facts show is we don t have a two-tiered system of justice. we have one department of justice that goes after criminals regardless of party idealogy. all of these folks were convicted under the administrations of three separate republican attorneys general. i
trump s case probably doing battle with multiple federal judges and multiple counts. this week alone was the d.c. circuit cut put his screams of presidential immunity temporarily on ice reminding him for the purposes of this criminal case, former president donald trump has become citizen trump, with all the defenses of any other criminal defendant. there were the nine supreme court justices who regardless of how they ultimately rule on the 14th amendment case sure sounded like they were not enjoying getting drawn into the nonstop cyclone of chaos that is donald j. trump. those keeping score at home, it is t-minus 72 hours till trump s legal team must file their appeal to the supreme court in the presidential immunity case, an appeal that must somehow convince those nine supreme court justices to agree to hear yet another trump case. that s just the cases we spent all week talking about. we also saw the judge, trump s civil fraud trial, judge engoran days away from ruling on t
single sentence that favors or even slightly sympathizes with donald trump s argument for presidential immunity. instead, the d.c. appeals court stands up trump s defenses only to knock them down one by one. the judges reached back through history citing case law from the early 1800s along with founders themselves on how they envisioned the power and limitations of the presidency. the court concludes quote, for the purposes of h criminal case, former president trump has become citizen trump with all of the defenses of any other criminal defendant. on trump s argument that the separation of powers doctrine bars judicial review of executive actions, the court cited presidents nixon and truman, both of whom were found to have exceeded their authority by the supreme court. nixon on trying to shield his tapes and truman on trying to seize steel mills. they also cited an 1882 supreme court ruling that said officers of the government can be sued pulling directly from the decision, q