trump says he can t be prosecute under january 6th because he wa acquitted in a senate impeachment trial, and he continues he has, quote, absolute immunity from prosecution with his acts as president. jack smith is expect today respond to those claims before the appeals court hears trump s case. that didn t stop the special counsel fromn filing a new motn with judge tanya chutkan today asking the court to not allow, quote, the defendant to turn the courtroom into a forum in which he propagates disinformation and inject politics into the proceeding. smith also wants the court to, quote, prohibit the defendant from introducing evidence, making arguments, or framing questions to advance a theory of selective or vindictive prosecution. basically the special counsel wants to make sure trump can t say this is joe biden s doj targeting them. and in the response trump said biden s doj is targeting him. joining me now to discuss is ryano riley, justice reporter r nbc news and author
castro in for alicia menendez. as we get to the our immigration talks come to the wire as homeland security chief, alejandro mayorkas meets with bipartisan senators, the clock is ticking on a deal. and progress is slow. while we are not denying crucial aid for our allies, gop lawmakers spend their time on bogus impeachment schemes. california congressman, robert garcia, and what happens next. also tonight, paying the price, how this week, multimillion dollar ruling against rudy giuliani could have ramifications beyond his bank account. and how might home states attorney general is doubling down on extremism after surviving a recent impeachment. this is american voices. we are just over one week from christmas. most lawmakers have already gone home for the holidays. earlier today, a few, along with homeland security chief, alejandro mayorkas, had a rare weekend session to try to hammer out some kind of deal on immigration before the end of the year. while they have not r
over a weekend session to try and hammer out some sort of deal on immigration before the end of the year. while they haven t reached a deal, several have cited, quote, unrest. anything to say about the negotiation? yes, we made progress, things are good. we are here, tomorrow it is all good. we know senate negotiators will be on the hill next week trying to work on the immigration side of the deal. so president biden s foreign aid package could pass. when republicans are holding aid to ukraine, israel, and other u.s. allies hostage to president biden agrees to short-circuit our nation silent system, comes as no surprise after all, today s micah dominated gop caucus zealously embraces donald trump s extreme anti immigrant agenda. republicans are proposing reads like a stephen miller wish list. a return of title 42, the expulsion of migrants without allowing the asylum, toughening the stand for granting asylum, bringing back wide scale migrated attention, and limiting exe
This comes just hours before finding was set to expire, which would have affected millions of americans and their families. Theres lots to get to this hour. Lets bring in nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, and National Reporter sahill kapoor. And we actually heard Michael Bennett speak on the senate floor. What did he have to say . Thats exactly right. Because you will remember that just a few hours ago, we wondered if senator Michael Bennet of colorado would be the one to hold this whole thing up. And certainly, he did provide a hold for about an hour or so, over the idea that no ukraine funding was included in this continuing resolution. Bennett certainly not the only one who was upset to find that that money was not included here. But what he was able to do, by putting this temporary hold on, was extract from leadership, and both the democratic and republican sides, a statement which is sure there would be a future push on ukraine funding in the form of a supplemental.
Passed a Stopgap Funding Bill that would temporarily keep the government open for 45 days, if signed by president biden. This comes just hours before finding was set to expire, which would have affected millions of americans and their families. Theres lots to get to this hour. Lets bring in nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, and National Reporter sahill kapoor. And we actually heard Michael Bennett speak on the senate floor. What did he have to say . Thats exactly right. Because you will remember that just a few hours ago, we wondered if senator Michael Bennet of colorado would be the one to hold this whole thing up. And certainly, he did provide a hold for about an hour or so, over the idea that no ukraine funding was included in this continuing resolution. Bennett certainly not the only one who was upset to find that that money was not included here. But what he was able to do, by putting this temporary hold on, was extract from leadership, and both the democratic and re