Were committed beyond a reasonable doubt. That was arizonas Attorney General announcing grand jury charges against 11 Fake Electors including seven of Donald Trumps key allies in their attempt to keep trump in power after the 2020 election. Well go over what the sweeping indictment reveals, plus hours from now the former president will be in New York City for his Hush Money Trial just as the Supreme Court in washington, d. C. Hears his immunity case. Our legal expert joins us on what to expect. Also ahead, after months of negotiations on capitol hill, President Biden signed the foreign aid bill into law, clearing the way for crucial assistance to ukraine. So how soon will americas ally get their much needed weapons . Hey, good morning. Welcome to Way Too Early on this thursday, april 25th. I am sam stein in for jonathan lemire. Whens he coming back . We begin with the latest out of arizona where a State Grand Jury has indicted 11 socalled Fake Electors along with several other allies o
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
you re not going to take their right to hunt and sports shoot away you re not going to take away their right to have weapons to protect their families if they live way out in the country, in a rural area that s an hour, maybe two hours from the nearest law enforcement. these voids, these political extremes also exist as it pertains to women s health you heard former president bill clinton talking about abortion protesters gathered across the nation over the weekend, including at the supreme court in washington, d.c., as the showdown over reproductive rights returns to the nation s highest court this week. on friday, supreme court justice samuel alito temporarily blocked lower court rulings that restricted the use of mifepristone it will remain available to women across the country until at least wednesday while the court weighs in on the latest efforts to ban the abortion pill
who asked to review evidence taken. and judge cannon, the 11th court of appeals in atlanta where trump asked for a delay of the justice department s request to speed things along and yesterday the supreme court in washington, d.c., where trump is asking for an intervention to get classified documents back before the special master and potentially throw up roadblocks to the doj s criminal investigation. the multiple moving parts they note has complicated the status of trump s legal play which, of course, is the point here, complicate a matter but at its core is not that complicated. he took thousands of white house documents and hundreds of classified ones to his florida home. and for months he refused to return them and lied about their existence in response to a federal subpoena that triggered an fbi search of mar-a-lago. joining us now is former fbi general council and current pro fetor at nyu law.
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