As jonathan mentioned our special coverage of the white house Correspondents Dinner takes off at 8 00 p. M. Please stick around. We will have extensive coverage. On this hour, we have two pivotal events testing the bedrock of our constitution, threats to First Amendment rights, and to the rule of law. Also tonight from new york to arizona we break down Donald Trumps Head Spinning week of legal drama including outrageous arguments his legal team made to the Supreme Court. Marjorie Taylor Greenes political standing, shifting from maga hero to. Lets do it. This week marked an Inflection Point in our nations history. The United States constitution being tested in new and dangerous ways. On thursday former President Donald Trump and his lawyers went to the u. S. Supreme court to double down on claims that a president possesses sweeping immunity from criminal prosecution. Basically according to the former president s lawyers his immunity is so absolute they argued, that even assassinating a
produce this report on behalf of the government back in 2012 so now that kind of implicates skaden which is a massive, influenti influential, international law firm. the fact they secured the cooperati cooperation, said today in a statement to reporters it is, in fact, cooperating with federal investigators, it really indicates that that could shed a lot of light on what paul manafort did with regard to this particular deal and whether or not it was illicit and that could potentially put more pressure on manafort to flip and talk about the trump campaign. and lydia, i mean, steve bannon s words are ringing in h my ears which is never a good thing, but steve bannon lays it out in fire and fury and he says andrew wiseman, who happens to be the prosecutor in today s charging documents listed, is a money laundering guy. steve bannon says in fire and fury, that s how they get to trump. this is not a direct quote. goes right through kushner, goes right through manafort.
in the coming days in another way that this president was tough on russia. it s a coming attraction, if you will. to help us uncover the truth underneath all that trumpian projection, we re joined by the best of the best. from the nooic the new york tim white house correspondent peter packer. washington post white house reporter ashley parker. at the table with us, alyssa, former obama white house deputy chief of staff for operations. who could barely keep a straight face through all that. michael crowley, senior foreign affairs correspondent politico. jim rutenberg with the new york times. lydia pulgreen, editor in chief. let me start with you, that was sarah huckabee sanders taking on the art of the tease. what s she talking about, what s the new tough on russia news that the white house is holding back from you guys? yeah, we should all be investigating that. i don t know the answer to the question. i wish i did. look, you know, unpacking what she said there, it is true, of
because in the situation room, there is a sign that says the security level, the clearance level, of the meeting. so i don t now how people go into almost everything in h the situation room is ts level or higher. at least. so i don t know how they re attending things. fundamentally, this is about blackmail, right? yes. that s what everyone is afraid of. we ve had a series of stories where the president was basically blackmailed over a porn star and a playmate, you know? and there have been long articles in the new yorker and elsewhere about jared kushner s vulnerability to china through his business dealings and i just it just seems unthinkable to me you would have people work bing in this white house that s already got a background of playing fast and loose and a vulnerability to blackmail at the highest levels that you would continue to have folks who are working without appropriate clearances. and lydia, the other thing is they re trying the bush or the trump a