Whats night, Jack Smith looks to Pierce Donald trumps immunity shield. Ill take you the president should be agnostic to who is going to occupy the office next. Right. So it arguably, and i think a very strong argument shouldnt matter, that the president or that the candidate is out advocating for a certain position. Right thats not an official role. The president i think thats what Jack Smith is really trying to get to here, is that this is Candidate Trump. These are candidate actions. Its the president of the senate. Its not the Vice President pence. And thats important because the president of the senate is actually an article one title. So thats thats congress. Its not the Executive Branch. In article two. So you see these differentiations in there. Another key differentiator that i think gets around on those supreme Court Court cases, the Fisher Case. And if you see in this indictment in the Fisher Case was about an obstruction of official proceeding, you see mention of, you know,
Is making another move to try to get the judge on the case thrown off. Lets get straight to cnns paula. Paula with the breaking news. What exactly are trumps lawyers attempting . Here . Which i were less than two weeks out from the beginning of this trial and hear trumps lawyers are asking the judge to allow them to file a motion for the judge, juan to recuse himself. They are arguing that he is conflicted by his daughters work as a Democratic Political consultant. Now, last year they made a similar similar request which was rejected by the judge. Im saying that it would not be in the pu inrest for him to recu hielf. Ut nowrumps lawyers are arguing sce this should be reconsidere because the judges dahter they argue is in a position to potentially financially benetf unclear if this will succeed, jake, but again, this is just another effort by the trump team. It appears to if nothing else delay this trial further. All right. Paula reid, thanks so much from trump, the defendant to trump,
Like magic and bird shades of that. The lead with jake tapper starts right now its not just donald trump upset with the judge these days, the Special Counsel now has a bone to pick with a different judge the lead starts right now andy, strongest rebuke, yet Special Counsel jack smith goes in blasting how judge Aileen Cannon is conducting that classified documents case against now prompt down in florida, he says her latest action has quote, no basis in law or fact were going to lay out what she did that has prosecutors so upset plus celebrity Chef Jose Andres speak picking out, accusing the Israeli Government of systematically targeting his aid workers killing them in gaza. Here his comments ahead. And cnn investigates whether another major us bridge is just as vulnerable as the one that collapsed near baltimore. This one is longer and busier than the one that i just went down welcome to the lead on jake tapper, we start today with our Law Injustice lead aid and Special Counsel jack smi
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Today on inside politics, what future or americans more afraid of both donald trump and joe bin tried to win votes on what americans are most worried about trump stokes fears of american carnage at the hands of migrants. While five warns of an america where abortion is unavailable. And health care is at risk. Plus joe biden puts out a blistering statement after the Israeli Government apologizes for unintentionally killing aid workers but some fellow democrats say words are no longer enough. And the Special Counsel does something remarkable. He puts pen to paper, blasting the judge presiding over the classified documents case for what he views as making basic mistakes that may cost him at trial im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics up first, donald trump is betting that he can scare voters on what he calls Migrant Crime. He did choosing him in november i stand before you today, declare the joe bidens Border Bloodbath, and thats what it is. Its a bloodbath. They