Full control of its territory . And go with a search for answers takes you Anderson Cooper, 360, weeknight today on cnn welcome to the whole story. Im Anderson Cooper last week, former President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to take up the issue of president ial immunity further delaying his federal criminal trial related to the 2020 election in the january for six attack on the capitol now the claim was already heard and rejected by a federal Appeals Court. Its now up to the highest court to decide to take the case or to let the ruling stand clear the way for this trial to begin. Now the timing is crucial because the former president is likely to become the republican nominee and he wants to delay the trial until after voters head to the polls in november charged with four counts of obstruction and conspiracy. But what exactly is he accused of doing to subvert the election . And is it his actions that matter or his intent . Over the next hour, cnn anchor and chief legal analyst
Center of them all, donald trump and his unlawful attempts to get in power and stay in power. First, in the state of new york, one of the star witnesses in trumps criminal trial was back on the stand for a third day of testimony. The prosecutors finished their questioning of former National Enquirer publisher david pecker. Where he acknowledged that the purpose of catching and Killing Playboy model Karen Mcdougals story about an affair with trump was to help trump during the 2016 election cycle. And pecker said he was aware that he was breaking Campaign Finance laws. Pecker also testified that he discussed mcdougal with trump while he was in the white house. This comes less than a day after 18 people were indicted in arizona for their roles in an attempt to overturn trumps loss in the 2020 election there. Including 11 Fake Electors who submitted a document to congress falsely declaring that trump won the state. Along with several trump aides including rudy giuliani, mark meadows, and b
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barely any time left in the term. looming decisions on trump s immunity claims, gun rights and a host of other issues. plus, a birthday reunion. the gop embraing trump in his first visit to capitol hill since the january 6th riot, but will his comments from yesterday come back to bite him? and later, a chance for peace or a nonstarter, president putin outlining his conditions for peace talks with ukraine. is it a genuine offer? it is 10:00 eastern, and i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin at the supreme court where in just moments we will get at least one more decision from the nine justices after a big decision yesterday on abortion medication. there are still 26 undecided cases this term. let s go right to nbc news washington correspondent yamiche alcindor outside the court for us, yamiche, what do we know? what are we waiting on? reporter: well, good morning, ana, we are waiting on 26 cases. we have a number of cases dealing with a number of big issues
This is what we do. We protest when we disagree and i dont think theres any reason for people to be told to come together and support this if they dont believe in it. Im not suggesting support tonights nominee but dont plan the protest before you know who the nominee is. And that is where we are. Were at the point of transparent obstruction on both sides, olivia nuzzi and david jolly, thank you. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Good evening, rachel. Good evening. Thanks, my friend. Thank you for joining us at this hour. This is a big important historic news day. Good to have you here. Thank you for watching the news on a night like this and thank you for watching it here. Antonin scalia, nino to his friends, he was beloved by his fellow Supreme Court justices. Even the justices who disagreed with h the most, perhaps escially the justices who disagreed with him the most in terms of their day jobs. They loved his company. Justice scalia and Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg they shared