court says not so fast to jack smith. the former president says he knows nothing about hitler while defending and repeating his hitler like language. a survivor of the october 7th massacre and her remarkable journey to find the man who saved her life and the lives of many others that terrible day. good evening, anderson is off tonight. we begin with the supreme court s decision not to decide just yet the central question that could invalidate in of the charges against the former president. namely, does donald trump enjoy immunity from prosecution in actions he took as president? the judge in his january 6 trial ruled he did not. his lawyers appealed to the dc circuit court of appealings, jack smith asked the supreme court to by pass the dc circuit and take it now. and they said no. so we have not a clear understanding of why the justices decided to do this. but walk us through what we know. how many votes this got and so forth. reporter: we don t know how many votes. we j
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supreme court says, not so fast, to special counsel jack smith, giving the former president s go-slow legal strategy a big boost. the former president says he knows nothing about hitler, while repeating and defending his hitler-like language. plus a survivor of the october 7th massacre and her remarkable journey. good evening. anderson is off tonight. and we begin with the supreme court s decision not to decide, at least just yet, the central question that could invalidate many of the charges against the former president. namely, does donald trump enjoy immunity from prosecution for actions he took as president? the judge in his january 6th trial ruled he did not. special counsel jack smith asked the supreme court to bypass the d.c. circuit and take it now. and today the court said no. cnn s katelyn polantz joins us with more. kate lynne, we have a decision, not a clear understanding of an explanation of why the justices decided this. walk us through what we know, how man
president trump s pressure campaign on to local election officials and michigan to not certify the 2020 presidential election results. is here to talk about this bombshell and about the colorado supreme court s ruling to boot trump from the ballot there. unfinished business, congress left town without a deal on immigration and aid for ukraine and israel, not to mention a overall budget to avoid a government shutdown. we dissect washington s long and incomplete to do list with max cohen of punchbowl news. and reverse migration, charles stops by to discuss his new documentary calling for black americans to change the nation s political calculus by moving to the south. i m jonathan capehart, and this is the saturday show. it s just one page, one sentence. quote, the petition for writ before judgment is denied. that should have been my bad, i m not a lawyer, but with that one sentence, the supreme court rejected special counsel jack smith s proposal to accelerate a decisi
so what will happen if his hands are tied? former president trump appeared in new york courtroom this afternoon. this time via zoom, in the hush money case involving stormy daniels. this hearing, the first since he pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records last month laid out what donald trump and his lawyers can and cannot say publicly about the case. more on what that entails in a moment and what was said in the courtroom. also in manhattan today, another lawsuit against the former president. this one familiar. e. jean carroll has amended her suit against donald trump. she s now asking for at least $10 million in damages after she says donald trump defamed her again, calling her a whack job at the cnn town hall he participated in the night after he was found liable for sexual abuse. we ll also explain how that case will proceed. joining me from outside the courtroom now for that hush money case first is lisa ruben. lisa, you were inside that room