Game. So well see how it all turns out, but again i say president ial immunity, very powerful president ial immunity is imperative or you practically wont have a country anymore. An ominous warning about donald trump following pivotal arguments on president ial immunity. Well play key moments from the justices and what theyre now poised to do as they learn of trumps actions. Plus what we learned of david pecker during had hush money trial as well as Instrumental Role in payments to kill stories about trump ahead of the 2016 election. And new ads to court nikki haley supporters. Well discuss the swing state where he plans to make his appeal and why. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this friday, april 26th. Im ali vitally in for jonathan lemire. And we begin this morning with yesterdays historic morning at Supreme Court where the justices heard Oral Arguments regarding Donald Trumps claim that hes immune from prosecution from his official acts while president. Nbc senior Lega
Court, bidens Campaign Goes in the offense, making a play for nikki haley voters in swing states as thank you for joining us gets underway on this thursday night. Good evening. We are now 194 days away from the election. Today, all eyes were on the United States Supreme Court. The justices heard Oral Arguments in trump versus the United States. This is the case that is all about the former president s controversial claim that he is immune from criminal prosecution. These are the questions at hand. What is the scope of president ial immunity . What constitutes an official act . Laura jarrett has more on todays arguments. Reporter the u. S. Supreme court is weighing a monumental question that will decide whether the former president goes to trial for plotting to overturn the last election and win. I think the Supreme Court has an important argument before it, today. Reporter trump is hoping to persuade the justices to find him immune from federal charges. His lawyers are arguing the oppo
Court, bidens Campaign Goes on the offense, making a play for nikki haley voters in swing states as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. Good evening, im katie saying in for stephanie ruhle. We are now 194 days away from the election. But today all eyes were on the United States Supreme Court. The justices hearing Oral Arguments in trump versus the United States. This is the case that is all about the former president s controversial claim that he is immune from criminal prosecution. These are the questions at hand. What is the scope of president ial immunity . And what constitutes an official act . Our own Laura Jarrett has more on todays arguments. Reporter tonight the u. S. Supreme court weighing a monumental question that will decide whether the former president goes to trial for plotting to overturn the last election and win. The Supreme Court has a very important argument before you today. Reporter mr. Trump hoping to persuade the justices to fight him immune from
Justices seem divided as they debated trumps Immunity Claim for his role in attempting to overturn the 2020 election. Youll hear their remarks with one justice raising concerns that shielding president s from prosecution could turn the oval office into a seat of criminality. Plus, this morning, former National Enquirer publisher david pecker is set to return to the stand in the hush money case with Defense Attorneys continuing their crossexamination. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is friday, april 26th. With us, former white house Director Of Communications for president obama, jennifer palmieri. Cohost of the podcast how to win 2024. Rogers chair and the american presidency at vanderbilt university, historian jon meacham. And our legal analyst, former litigaor and msnbc Legal Correspondent lisa rubin. Former u. S. Attorney and msnbc contributor barbara mcquade. Good morning to you all. Lets dive right in with yesterdays historic day at the Supreme Court where the justices he
let me ask you. there are, there is reporting that just on friday they re going to start talking about criminal referrals which i know is part of mike s note about politics versus criminal referrals. how do you see this panning out? you have people that were subpoenaed to testify and didn t follow through in response. what do you see as potential criminal referrals? the ones that interested me reading the reporting were issues of perjury and witness tampering which obviously anyone who comes before congress, one you got to tell the truth and two you can t be tampering with witnesses. those are the ones i am most interested to see what came out of those transcripts and what is outlined because those i believe would go beyond the political issue. when you are dealing with whether they ll make a criminal referral for president trump on conspiracy, the justice department is already investigating. they ve been bringing in stephen miller and these different people. they don t need congress