unresolved, really ruining way for such an important case to just be punted and delayed. that s also potentially on the table. we ll have more on the weeks ahead. that s a big part of all this. a broad immunity claim for trump could go well beyond trump, his life span, our life span, if this is a republic that we start the new year trying to still hold on to, we have to be clear about what the consequences are for trying to destroy the republic, or end democracy. and there are former trump white house officials, these are people who are the closest to him and the most loyal until the end, raising alarms about him beating this case, or avoiding this case and being reelected and what an authoritarian second term would look like. fundamentally a second trump term could may not the end of american democracy as we know it. i don t say that lightly. his rhetoric has gotten