The Appeals Court hearing on Donald Trumps Immunity Hearing has wrapped up. The threejudge appellant panel facing this big question can the former president be held criminally responsible for actions that he took while in office to overturn the 2020 election loss. We heard a remarkable argument from trumps team who heard the argument that prosecuting a former president would open up a pandoras box as john sauer said that working in the capacity as alleged in the indictment by jack smith, the Special Counsels office pushing back on that. This notion that we are all of the sudden going to be seeing a floodgate, i think that, again, the careful investigations in the clinton era didnt result in any charges. The fact that this investigation did doesnt reflect that we are going to see a sea change of vindictive titfortat prosecutions in the future. I think it reflects fundamentally unprecedented nature of the criminal charges here. Cnns evan perez joins us now. Evan, you were inside of that
are inherent in marbury versus madison are like delivering a seal when requested, because there is a separate statute, and the secretary of the state had two of the hats on and he was on one hand the direct agent of the president, and that could never be examinable by the courts, but on the other hand, the original statute had imposed all of the purely ministerial duties that had to do with the recordkeeping and delivering of documents and if you had a land deed that had a seal on it, and the person asked for it no, discretion at all, but the take-care clause, there is no statute that could impose on the president, a, a mandatory duty to engage, and the notion that when the president is meeting with the department of justice and enforce federal fraud statutes and that being ministerial strikes me as insupportable. well, i think that you are missing what i am asking. which is, i think that it is paradoxical to say that his constitutional duty to take care of the laws be fait
the appeals court hearing on donald trump s immunity hearing has wrapped up. the three-judge appellant panel facing this big question can the former president be held criminally responsible for actions that he took while in office to overturn the 2020 election loss. we heard a remarkable argument from trump s team who heard the argument that prosecuting a former president would open up a pandora s box as john sauer said that working in the capacity as alleged in the indictment by jack smith, the special counsel s office pushing back on that. this notion that we are all of the sudden going to be seeing a floodgate, i think that, again, the careful investigations in the clinton era didn t result in any charges. the fact that this investigation did doesn t reflect that we are going to see a sea change of vindictive tit-for-tat prosecutions in the future. i think it reflects fundamentally unprecedented nature of the criminal charges here. cnn s evan perez joins us now. ev
first argument. after nixon, we then see a series of independent and special prosecutors investigating a range of different types of conduct. you saw independent counsel lawrence walsh in the iran contra affair and this is what the defendant invokes in the reply brief and in chapter 27 of that report, the independent counsel assumes that president reagan is subject to prosecution, and he says that we did not get there evidentiarily, and we thought that there was immunity and it has continued through to the present and so this notion of a floodgate, i think that, again, the careful investigations and the clinton era didn t result in any charges. the fact that this investigation did, doesn t reflect that we will see a sea change of vindictive tit-for-tat prosecutions in the future. i think that it reflects fundamentally unprecedented nature of the criminal charges
era didn t result in any charges. the fact that this investigation did doesn t reflect that we are going to see a sea change of vindictive tit-for-tat prosecutions in the future. i think it reflects fundamentally unprecedented nature of the criminal charges here. cnn s evan perez joins us now. evan, you were inside of that courtroom, and i have to understand what were your key takeaways and what was the climate like in the actual atmosphere in that room. what did you see? well, once the former president finally got into the courtroom, that is when all of the noise in the room stopped. everybody obviously turned their attention to the former president. he was very subdued, and walked in kind of like a saunter and he took the seat at the defense table with alongside his lawyer john sawuer and one of the thins