that s going to do it for me today. deadline: white house starts now. hi everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. i m ali velshi in for nicolle wallace. an incredibly important question looming over democracy, can presidents be held accountable for crimes committed in office. a unanimous ruling by the d.c. court of appeals rejected donald trump s claims of immunitity in the federal election case. the decision by the judges is a stinging rebuke of the ex-president in what has become a months long push to get the charges against him dismissed. in their ruling, the judges make the point that while donald trump is a former president of the united states, he is in the eyes of the law, just another criminal defendant. for the purposes of this criminal case, frp has become citizen trump with all the any executive immunity that may have protected him while he served as president no longer protects him in this prosecution. prosecuting presidents for things they did in office would have
to a committee member, jamie raskin, in his first interview since the hearing. there was never before seen testimony from trump s inner circle, including attorney general bill barr. and the former president s daughter and senior adviser at funky trump. there was also disturbing new footage of the violent attack that took place on the capitol. the committee made out exactly how the hearings will show that this was a culmination of an attempted coup and they say the former president was at the absolute epicenter of it all. here is just some of what we saw. donald trump, the president of the united states, spurred a mob of domestic enemies. to march down the capital and subvert democracy. i made it clear that they didn t agree with the idea of putting out this stuff, i told the president was bullish. it i respect attorney general barr. so i accepted what he said was saying. president trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and let the blame of this attack. president t
general bill barr and former president trump s daughter ivanka trump and disturbing footage of the violent attack that took place on the capitol, the committee made out exactly how the hearings will show that this was a culmination of an ateamed coup and they say the former president was at the absolute epicenter of it all. here is some of what we saw. donald trump, the president of the united states, spurred a mob of domestic enemies of the constitution, to march down the capitol and subvert american democracy. i made it cleardy not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff which i told the president was bullshit. i respected attorney general barr so i accepted what he said and was saying. president trump assembled a mob, assembled a mob and lit the flame of this attack. president trump is wrong. i had no right to overturn the election. pat cipollone threatened to resign. i kind of took it up to whining to be honest with y
Brand, wealth, everything hes worked to build is under threat right now. The former president just left a new york courtroom for a lunch break after facing off with the Attorney General. Just moments from now well lay out the significant stakes that trump faces. Plus Kevin Mccarthys speaker ship is in danger. His lastminute deal to avoid a Government Shutdown could come at the cost of his gavel. The new and growing threat from inside the Republican House caucus. The pointed warning that this is the new normal, flooded streets, floating cars, water pouring in from the walls. As challenges grow and infrastructure increasingly buckles across the country, what can be done to combat Climate Change . Ill speak with two leading experts. We begin with the empire that made donald trump into a mogul and a president , on trial right now in New York City. Trump decided to be in court and face the judge that has already ruled he consistently committed fraud. Before arriving he acknowledged on socia
these are groups that could only gather 500 at their unite the right rally in charlottesville in august of 2017. now they were the vanguard stormtroopers of a rally of a march of tens of thousands of people that turned into a mob insurrection that nearly toppled the government of the united states and overthrew an election. that s a pretty heavy experience for these people. but we ve got to make sure that is the end of it. and that we are not going to dissolve into violent clans all over america. that can t be the future of the greatest multiracial, multi ethnic, multi religious constitutional democracy that ever existed. we ve got to keep growing as a democracy. so, we ve got to fortify our institutions. but sir, this isn t a trial. what can you do? what everyone saw tonight is as awful as you could possibly imagine. what can the committee recommend, because that s what