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
campaign is going to be unlike any other. yes, the new hampshire primary was a decisive win for donald trump. the kind of win that squashes any momentum for his one remaining challenger nikki haley. but buried in the results are also some very hard truths about americans views of donald trump, trumpism and the state of our democracy. as the bull work put it today, nikki haley has beaten donald trump in iowa. two groups of voters would be deciding the presidential nomination. the first group is a republican primary and caucus voters who acknowledge that tmp legitimately lost the 2020 presidential election. the second group, which overlaps with the first, is republican primary and caucus voters who accept that if trump were to be convicted of a crime, it would be unfit to serve as president. exit polling from nbc news shows that while the republican base may have stuck with trump, just 13% of hah lee voters said they would be satisfied with trump s winning the gop nomination.
second defamation trial brought by e. jean carroll. what trump told jurors when he took the stand in a case that could be in a jury s hands by this afternoon. plus, breaking news from the u.n., the top court stopping just short of ordering an immediate cease fire in gaza. what that court is now demanding that israel do in its war against hamas. and later, alabama puts a man to death using nitrogen gas, the inmate s stark finals words and the heated debate over the first new method of execution in more than 40 years. hello, thank you for being with us. it is friday, 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin with donald trump back in a courtroom this morning for closing arguments in the second e. jean carroll defamation case, and a jury could get this case as soon as this afternoon. this after the former president took the stand in his own defense for just minutes yesterday after days of delays and speculation. let s get right to the courthouse a
currently suspended from practicing law and unable to make money that way, but mr. giuliani is earning very little income from his podcast and his radio show, making him exactly almost every other podcaster in america. now, technically, today was a very small procedural victory for giuliani. the bankruptcy judge granted giuliani an exemption. and that exemption allows mr. giuliani to try to challenge the $148 million in damages that he owes georgia election workers ruby freeman and shaye moss for publicly and repeatedly defaming them. the exemption does not mean that mr. giuliani can challenge the fact that he defamed them. that has been settled in court. it just means he can apply to challenge the cash amount he owes in damages. the fact that this is considered a victory for rudy giuliani shows how much his fortunes have changed, both literally and figuratively. the speed of justice in this country is sometimes frustratingly, aggravating-lu slow. but justice does come. late
talk about a recruitment effort for right there. thank you, my friend, thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. there is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. not the words of an angry leprechaun. that is how rudy giuliani s lawyer described his client assets at bankruptcy court this morning. the lawyer went on to explain that, not only is giuliani currently suspended from practicing law and unable to make money that way. but mr. giuliani is earning very little income from his podcast and his radio show, making him exactly almost every other podcaster in america. now, technically, today was a very small procedural victory for giuliani. the bankruptcy judge granted giuliani an exemption. and that exemption allows mr. giuliani to try to challenge the $148 million in damages that he owes georgia election workers ruby freeman and shaye moss for publicly and repeatedly defending them. the exemption does not mean that mr. giuliani can challenge the fact that he defam