i'm bret baier. breaking tonight. the u.s. supreme court issued a landmark ruling that presidents have some immunity from prosecution. it is a newanced decision that hinges on what is and is not considered an official act the immediate after effect the issues may delay push them past the november election. fox news chief legal correspondent, anchor of "fox news sunday" shannon bream starts us off with all of this tonight. good evening, shannon. >> good evening, bret it. is a win for the trump legal team today in the sense that it delays special counsel jack smith's case against him it. does not completely extinguish very real three threats. >> writing for the majority, chief justice roberts said no president is above the law. but that, quote: the president may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers. and he is entitled at a minute pump to a presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. that immunity applies equally to all occupants of the oval office. regardless of politics, policy or party. the justices did not determine which of the allegations against president trump do or don't fall within the official duties. sending the case back to the trial court to work through that process. noting that the case was pushed forward with such haste that the factual record necessary for the justices to make most of those determinations doesn't exist though the majority did find president trump has absolute immunity discussions with justice department officials. those falling within his exclusive constitutional authority. the tis centers aggressively warned about what they see is the real world impact of today's decision. justice sotomayor imagining a scenario in which a president hires a hit man to take out a political rival later writing the court effectively creates a law-free zone around the president upsetting the status quo that has existed sings the founding. adding with fear for our democracy, i dissent. justice jackson writing in a dissent of her own, the seeds of absolute power for presidents have been planted and without a doubt, absolute power corrupts absolutely. the majority pushed back on what it called the dissenters wholly disproportionate tomorrow of chilling doom, noting, like everyone else, the president is subject to prosecution in his unofficial capacity. now the work of weeding through the special counsel's indictment. to determine what's an official act and what's not, that will eat up more time at the trial court level. the majority did make this note regarding some of the allegations. whether the tweets, that speech and trump's other communications on january 6th involve official conduct may depend on the content and context of each. >> shannon: today's ruling did not specifically address the mar-a-lago classified documents' case. cub sure the trump team is going to argue this immunity decision applies in that federal criminal case as well. bret? >> bret: shannon bream outside the court, shannon, thank you. just some breaking news from the white house. president is going to deliver remarks about this decision, 7:45 at cross hall inside the white house. about the decision of the supreme court we are getting one of the first reactions to thursday's debated a poll from suffolk "u.s.a. today" indicates 44% of those surveyed say it did not impact their decision about voting. 31 percent said them more likely to vote for former president donald trump. just 10% made them more likely to vote for president biden. 50% of those surveyed said they thought former president trump won the debate. just 11 percent said president biden. 28 percent said neared neither. reaction from the left outrage and concern on the decision of immunity. former president trump calling that decision a solid ruling. a big win for democracy. and the constitution correspondent bryan yen that's has reaction from palm beach, florida. >> thank you. >> former president trump declaring victory tonight after the supreme court decision all but ensured special prosecutor jack smith's 2020 election interference case won't go to trial before election day. the supreme court totally dismantled most of the charges against me. joe biden should now call off his dogs, our country should now be focused on greatness again. republicans claiming a win over what they say is democrats' weaponization of the judicial system. >> now, the american people can focus on the real issues at hand and who they want to lead america over the next four years. >> decision adding to the trump campaign's momentum, following president biden's calamitous debate performance last week. >> this is like a rocky knockout. they should build a statue of trump georgia tech. should joe biden still stay in the race. >> a new poll conducted before the debate showed trump ahead of biden by 4 points in a head-to-head rematch in battleground michigan. after the debate, according to politico, michigan governor gretchen whitmer warned the president's campaign that her state is no longer winnable for biden. whitmer disputing that report, quote: anyone who claims i would say that we can't win michigan is full of explicative. let's go. former president trump has also out-fundraised biden by $81 million over the last two months. with biden's back against the wall, the rnc blasting out fundraising emails today, declaring right now we have got them on the ropes. as for the impacts of last week's debate, look, it's not just michigan that could be trouble for president biden, according to fox news power rankings, arizona and nevada are the most likely battleground states to shift from toss-up to former president trump. over the next two weeks fox will analyze multiple reliable polls before adjusting our election forecast. bret? >> bret: bryan llenas outside palm beach. bryan, thanks. president biden's campaign says today's ruling does not change the fact that then president trump encouraged a mob to overthrow the results of the 2020 election that's their statement. calls increase for president biden to remove himself for the democratic ticket for this year's election following last week's debated performance. let's get reaction from the white house tonight. that's where we find gillian turner live from the north lawn. good evening, gillian. >> good evening, bret. biden world tonight is lashing out in the wake of the supreme court's ruling the campaign is trying to insist that the former president trump's legal whos are actually in the spotlight. should be under scrutiny today. this is the president's allies are closing ranks amid more calls for him to step aside. >> i don't regret my endorse wanted because donald trump is existential threat to this country. >> felons aren't welcome in the u.s. armed forces. why would we want one as our commander-in-chief. >> gillian: even the secretary of state normally tight-lipped on politics went on defense for the president. >> what the world knows. the world has experienced over three and a half years not one night is exactly the kind of leadership that he has brought to bear. >> biden's inner circle over the weekend reportedly telling him he is the only democrat that can beat trump in 2024. the president himself hasn't always believed that. >> mr. president, do you think there is any democrat that can beat donald trump other than you. >> probably 50 of them i'm not the only one to defeat him but i will defeat him. >> other democrats took up arms first lady amid reports she has been pushing biden to stay in the race. >> they don't live in each other's shadows. if he didn't want to be president, if he didn't want to run again. she would be the first one in her car heading to the beach. >> jen psaki, biden's former press secretary defending her colleagues and pointing the blame at biden himself. quote: biden was bad, important converconversations about what s next, if you were directing your ire at prep, you are not talking about the right things. the biden campaign rang a fire alarm fire warning today when reacting to the supreme court's decision granting trump partial immunity. >> trump has only grown more unhinged and now is he unchecked, thanks to this ruling today by the supreme court. >> well, as of now, the biden campaign insists the president will debate trump again in september and that he will be the party's nominee at the democratic convention. as you mentioned off the top of the show, bret, the president decided to come back early to the white house from camp david tonight. is he on his way. is he going to address the american people at 7:45. bret? >> bret: okay. gillian turner, live on the north lawn, gillian. thanks. >> obama dropped missiles and they ended up hitting a kindergarten or a school. what would happen to biden? he has killed our country with his policies. the border is a disaster. if a president is afraid to act because they are worried about being indicted when they leave office. if they don't have immunity, no president is going to act. former president trump making his case for immunity. brit hume and trey gowdy former congressman from south carolina. brit, let me start with you. your thought of the impact of this ruling and what it means big picture? >> well, obviously the most immediate impact postpone any trial by under jack smith, the special prosecutor of president trump on the cases that he is bringing against him until after the election. they have got to sort out which of these acts that are alleged against a president would be considered to be official acts as opposed to private or unfinal acts. and that's got to be, as the supreme court pointed out that wasn't briefed, the lower courts investigate it. when they were hearing it. so there is some work to be done before they can move those cases forward if indeed they can move them at all. that's point number one. point number two the dissents in the case border on hysteria. there are all this parade of horribles that was trotted out by justice society mayor poses all sorts of possibilities that are remind me of that old jewish proverb i'm an old man and i have seen a lot of most of them never happened. those are the two things that strike me at this moment. >> bret: yeah, trey. democrats, both in the senate and the house all weighness a similar tone. dick durbin the majority ruled not just donald trump but future presidents may be immune from abusing the levers of government to overturn. relateddably it is disgraceful thomas and a&e alito refused to recuse themselves from this case. as i said the appearance of impartiality or impropriety requires recusal. here is laughlin on the judiciary committee in the house. >> and they basically had said anything the president says and does is within the prenumb bra of his official acts. that's not what the constitution says. it's not what the founders intended. it's not what our democracy needs. these guys are extremists, really. they are extremists with a political agenda and it's very disturbing. >> so it does sound like this is going to be the beginning of a campaign for democrats to run against the supreme court. >> i just wish they had read the opinion. i mean, when i listen to them talk about it, i just wish they had read it. part of jack smith's indictment is dead. part is on life support. but part is still very much alive. while president trump will not be on trial between now and november. that does not mean he won't be in a courtroom. they are going to have to litigate these unofficial acts and see whether or not jack smith can untether them from that definition of official. the dissent really does a disservice to the american people. the notion that it confers absolute immunity on a president to do whatever he or she wants to, you clearly haven't read the opinion if you believe that. >> bret: brit, whack the political impact, you know, post thursday's debate and now we are going to hear from the president tonight at the white house reacting to this ruling? obviously a lot has happened in the last few days. >> brit: i suspect he will stand up and read off the toll prompter and he will do fine. the damage is done. good chance that the polling results we get in the near term after this debate. any direction because i think in terms of the president's sen sentand frailty the public got t the media weren't reporting that very well. there was enough out there that people could see it and of course they could see it in public events i think the pluck is up to speed on this and so that idea that he is so frail and senile may already be baked into the numbers. he will probably -- the president will probably lose some ground trump pay gain a bit. it may not be earth shaking. the question for biden is whether it's reversible. >> trey, there are more and more people coming out saying on the democratic side. saying it needs -- there needs to be a change, including james carville this afternoon. but, if president biden decides not to get out of this race, there is really not a lot that democrats can do about it. >> there is not. he is the nominee though have a problem his vice president is an african-american female. without that voting constituency, there is no democrat party. so, to skip over her to go to a gavin newsom or a gretchen whitmer is the death knell. it there may already be a death knell. 10% of people who watched that debate more likely to vote for joe biden that is the most staggering thing i have heard in probably the last 10 years. they must have oversampled psychiatric units. who could have watched that i do baited and now be more likely to vote for joe biden? 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