new details emerging about the former president s legal strategy as a federal appeals court will hear oral arguments tuesday on his claims of executive privilege over january 6th documents. trump s lawyers writing in a legal brief that quote the appellees clear disdain for president trump is leading them to a course of action that will result in permanent damage to the institution of the presidency. joining me now to discuss, cnn s legal analyst, elliot williams. elliot, nice to see you my friend, tonight, wow, first of all, a day of extraordinary verdicts but also the president of the united states, the former president of the united states and his legal counsel trying to make the argument now and putting aside the irony that trump is worried about somebody else damaging the institution of the presidency, there is irony
strategy as a federal appeals court will hear oral arguments tuesday on his claims of executive privilege over january 6th documents. trump s lawyers writing in a legal brief that quote the appellees clear disdain for president trump is leading them to a course of action that will result in permanent damage to the institution of the presidency. joining me now to discuss, cnn s legal analyst, elliot williams. elliot, nice to see you my friend, tonight, wow, first of all, a day of extraordinary verdicts but also the president of the united states, the former president of the united states and his legal counsel trying to make the argument now and putting aside the irony that trump is worried about somebody else damaging the institution of the presidency, there is irony in that, is there any merit to his argument? he s got one point, and i think one quite valid point, which is that, look, laura, going back decades, there s this question of to what extent can congress and should congress
we have heard this before, and you know, a federal appeals court will hear oral arguments next week, and trump was denied in the earlier ruling, the judge said presidents are not kings, and trump is not president. both valid and true statements. what do you expect this hearing to actually talk about and how do you think it s going to go? that s an excellent question. you know, look, but the thing is she did say presidents are not kings but she also did say as an aside, congress s request here is overwhelmingly broad or incredibly broad. at the end of the day, president trump just doesn t have particularly great legal standing here, right, because number one, take this argument to its extreme, that a former president can be protected for the things he does, he d be providing himself a shield for wrong doing, he could misbehave. if you re talking about protecting the institution of
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with republicans on substantive issues to help people and instead, we have seen this total gridlock fortunately this week. we are seeing usmca end up getting passed. it s almost like pelosi realized they can t send these freshman home without something good even though it s a win for the president. most importantly it s a win for the american worker. and she eventually did now what she should have done at the beginning of the year. tucker: meanwhile, the president scores a win in prescription drug prices this week. it s almost as if being an extremist makes you stupid just a theory. congressman, great to see you tonight. you as well. thank you. tucker: the president doesn t seem rattled by. this he seems cheerful at times. is he holding a rally tonight as we said at the open in battle creek, michigan in the very district of justin amash, who is a libertarian, was a republican now he is an independent. the president, i think, has spoken for about 14 minutes. but devoted a total of