No other president has been indicted like this. Trumps lawyers arguing he should be immune, basically totally immune because he was president during those efforts. That is a new relatively made up claim which they lost unanimously before the respected d. C. Court of appeals. Keep that in mind. That is the recent precedent and context for today, and you may remember that was the now infamous hearing where the trump lawyer openly claimed that as President Trump could have a license to kill american opponents. That was the kind of chilling talk that many, many people across the spectrum rebuked then. That kind of talk was back today with grave questions about murder and coups and trumps lawyer saying its okay or it all depends. Lets say this president , who ordered the military to stage a coup. Orders the military or orders someone to assassinate him, is that within his official acts. I think it would depend on the circumstances. It would depend on the hypothetical. It raises questions. O
on the other side to say here, a president orders his seal team to assassinate a political rival and resigns, for example, before an impeachment not a criminal act. the president sells a pardon, resigns or not impeached, not a crime. i think that is extraordinarily frightening fewer. cnn illegal analyst elie honig is with us. good morning. riveting i thought to listen to the entire thing yesterday. talk to us about the core argument on both sides. we got to nerd out. it was glorious. the nation got to see our criminal justice process in action. high level. well done by all the judges and lawyers yesterday. let s talk about the arguments. now, donald trump s team in the written briefs, the memos they submit before the hearing they made this argument, they said donald trump is immune here because what he s charged with doing fell within the outer perimeter of his job as the president. that was what he said going into the argument. that s what i was expecting to
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