thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with katie phang in for ari starts right now. hi, katie. thanks, nicole. i think extraordinary is an understatement these days, but thank you, i appreciate it. have a good show. thanks. and welcome to the beat, i m katie phang in for ari melber. the supreme court today handing down a win for donald trump in his federal insurrection case. a consequential decision that will affect presidential power for years to come, ruling that trump has immunity for some of his official conduct as president but not for private, unofficial acts. here s how that played out. the high court has just issued one of its most consequential rulings in decades. the president has absolute immunity for core constitutional powers, however, not for unofficial acts. five alarm fire. supreme court has decreed him a king. how the justices rule could well define the parameters
with former secretary of state hillary clinton who joined us to talk about the 2024 election and the threat that her 2016 opponent, donald trump, poses to the future of american democracy. how do people manage, especially people who really love this democracy, who take it seriously, who take the words you just said on our show very seriously, that you can t just sit back and let democracy come to you, that this is, every day, something we all must work on together, what do you say when people ask you about the former president, these trials, these delays, and the fear that they feel about the upcoming election? well, mika, i m happy to go to therapy with you any time let s do it. clearly, the pressure and the stress on our system, our country, our constitution, our future is so intense. for those of us who understand what s at stake and i don t mean that in a, you know, derogatory way to others no. but if you ve been in this world as you and i have, you ve s
the campaign they are talking about what people are actually feeling out there. i think that is going to be very helpful. you can get people statistics and all sorts of stuff, but we have to have real conversations about how are these things affecting you at home? a lot of surprises for me. a lot of fun in one hallway, running into two of my old friends. we will do this all over again. he might get some sleep, my friend. we have a surprise from the supreme court. a ruling in favor of common sense. all the justices except clarence thomas joined in favor of the common sense decision in the case of preventing domestic abusers from having guns. chief justice roberts, in the majority opinion, said the laws confirm what common sense suggests one one when individual poses a clear threat to another, the threatening individual may be disarmed. end quote. that threatening individual may be disarmed. that is a good concept. does it apply to this individual? those j6 warriors,
and run into malcolm kenyatta, who s a fellow pennsylvanian. and it was great to see him. and you know, the campaign has people like him talking about what people are actually feeling out there, i think that s going to be very, very helpful. you can give people statistics, you can give people all sorts of stuff, but we have to have real conversations about how are these things affecting you at home. so i thought, lot of surprises for me, lot of fun in one hallway running into two of my old friends. i m going to see you in not too many hours. we re going to do this all over again. get some sleep, my friend. a surprise from the supreme court today a ruling in favor of common sense. all the justices except thomas joined in favor in the case of preventing domestic abusers from having guns. chief justice roberts in the majority opinion wrote, quote, the laws confirm what common sense suggests, when an individual poses a clear threat of physical violence to another, the threa
bret: good evening, welcome to washington. i m bret baier. breaking tonight two u.s. adversaries raising eyebrows this national security circles causing real concern here in washington as both country s leaders touted their nuclear ambitions today. russian president vladimir putin saying he will revisit his country s policies on using nuclear weapons while iran is drastically expanding one of its not so secret nuclear sites. we begin with russia. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin has details tonight lye from the pnc. good evening, jennifer. jennifer: good evening, bret. more nuclear saber ratling from vladimir putin during his second stop in acre shah in search of friends. weapons for his war in ukraine, and a return to the cold war. the veiled threat came thursday during a press conference in vietnam. putin said he was thinking of changing russia s nuclear doctrine, lowering the threshold for the first use of a nuclear weapon. currently russian doctr