thank you so much, reverend sharpton. a big show indeed, i am alicia menendez. welcome to a new weekend of american voices. with our country now in uncharted waters with the federal indictment of donald trump. this hour, the former president is going to make his second public parents it today. stopping in north carolina. we are not going to air his speech live. but we will bring you any news that he makes. we expect his speech to mirror his remarks, just hours ago in georgia. the former president, the only president in u.s. history to be federally charged with a crime, firing up his base. acting without a care in the world. repeating his same tired lie that his indictment is a product of a deep state witch hunt. instead of his own misdeeds. which we learned yesterday, not just hearsay, but caught on tape, and on camera. well trump can go out and say what he wants, the rubber meets the road this tuesday in miami. where this country, and the world, we ll see him face federal
have power to grant pardons, except in cases of impeachment. that is it. nothing on self pardons. the justice department tried to clear things up back in 1974. right before richard nixon got impeached. in a memo, the doj determined, basically no, a president cannot self pardon, because no one can be a judge in their own case. just like we don t let people be the prosecutor or the judge or the jury in their own case, the argument goes, you can t be the pardon error in your own. case reporter: since then, that legal opinion has never been tested. until maybe now. if mr. trump were to win the white house in 2024, he could try to pardon himself on those new federal charges within minutes of inauguration. but experts say it would very likely go to the supreme court to decide whether that self pardon would hold. and remember, it s a court that has a conservative majority because of the nominations of mr. trump himself. in the court that we have right now, it s one that i think is very