continue to follow breaking news and an extraordinary request by special counsel jack smith at the supreme court decide to whether the former president have immunity from prosecution for alleged crimes he committed while in office, this will be the first time the high court could weigh in on the historic prosecution of the former president. joining us now is a senior supreme court analyst job is cubic and paula reid. so, paula, this is a pretty aggressive move from the special counsel. what is the play? that is exactly right, this is the first time the special counsel jack smith has gone to the supreme court, he is asking it to decide if the former president is immune from criminal prosecution. that is a constitutional question that has never been decided, but really what is at stake is the timing of trump s first criminal trial. trump has been litigating this issue of immunity, he lost at the district court level and signaled he would appeal, the next stop would usually be
opinions, where i think what he did say in that op-ed that i think is true and hard to deny is he s often ruled in favor of republican causes and not in favor of republican causes. he s not been a partisan. right? he s demonstrated it s this temperament question we keep talking about. people are talking about judicial temperament and how he has ruled and his history on the court has demonstrated and his peers have said, more than 100 of his peers have weighed in and said this is a man who s demonstrated excellent judicial temperament. when you re dealing with defending your integrity in front of a political process that you feel has slandered you and is unfair, you re dealing maybe with a temper in that moment about yourself. but that is not your professional temperament with which you have demonstrated and conducted yourself in a professional sphere for your entire life. and by the way, you re not going to be weighing in on cases that deal with yourself. otherwise you recuse yoursel
is i don t even understand how that would be reassuring to children. if i saw my father behaving that way, i would be horrified and embarrassed. and so i get that he s upset. i totally get that. but if you want to be on the supreme court, we re going to judge you based on how you act not just when you re not under pressure, but how you act when you re also under pressure and he is held to a higher standard than almost any other person in this country because he s going to be put on the supreme court, which is one of the most revered institutions in the country. go ahead. to be fair he s had a lifetime of working in high pressure jobs. he s had 12 years on the court where he s had over 300 opinions. what he did say in the op-ed which i think is true and not hard to deny, he s often ruled in favor of republican causes and not in favor of republican causes. he s not been a partisan, right? he s demonstrated that it s this temperament question we keep talking about. people are talking
don t like donald trump because he is flamboyant and he says things that are disagreeable. guess what customer gets also disagreeable and absolute and professional showing up and stocking ted cruz at a restaurant. come on, people. harris: it gets dangerous in a heartbeat. melissa: one of the bad outcomes of this is that no decent person is ever going to want to stand up and try to be a supreme court justice again. if there is one place we really need decent people, it s on the supreme court. what he knew a limited people who love their families, care about their families, don t want to put their families through this who don t want to stand up and go for it, and you re like i can t do it. those are people we need on the supreme court more than anywhere else. harris: hold on one second print i want to ask you, tucker, about temperament. because that is where democrats have been with brett kavanaugh. just the temperament question from the testimony before the judiciary committee
talk. you look around the web, the daily mail of all places, usually friendly to trump, has a story tonight on the president taking propecia to promote hair growth, it can cause anger, depression. can you remember this much attention to the health of the president? we know the donald trump hair is part of his image, part of his identity. i was struck by the propecia mention, i hope this settles the question of whether he s wearing a glued on wig or not. i don t think he would be taking propecia unless he really had to. this is another footnote as far as the president is concerned. again the temperament question