thank you so much, reverend sharpton. a big show indeed, i am alicia menendez. welcome to a new weekend of american voices. with our country now in uncharted waters with the federal indictment of donald trump. this hour, the former president is going to make his second public parents it today. stopping in north carolina. we are not going to air his speech live. but we will bring you any news that he makes. we expect his speech to mirror his remarks, just hours ago in georgia. the former president, the only president in u.s. history to be federally charged with a crime, firing up his base. acting without a care in the world. repeating his same tired lie that his indictment is a product of a deep state witch hunt. instead of his own misdeeds. which we learned yesterday, not just hearsay, but caught on tape, and on camera. well trump can go out and say what he wants, the rubber meets the road this tuesday in miami. where this country, and the world, we ll see him face federal
providing that the united states reserves and retains complete ownership, possession and control of presidential records. for more than a year, and despite multiple opportunities to remedied situation and return materials that rightly belong to the federal government, donald trump refused to cooperate time and time again. as we know now from the indictment unsealed by the department of justice yesterday, the former president and his personal valet, and now codefendants, walt nauta have both been indicted. trump along faces 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information, and one count of false statements. both men are also charged with one count each of his conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document, corruptly concealing a document, concealing and documents in a federal investigation, and a scheme to conceal. not to has also in charge for making false statements. the government alleges in his indictment that it s not only a passive bystander that go
cannot self pardon, because no one could be a judge in their own case. just like we don t let people be the prosecutor or the judge or the jury in their own case, the argument goes, you can t be the pardon or in your own case. since then, that legal opinion has never been tested, until maybe now. if mr. trump ought to win the white house in 2024, he could try to pardon himself on those new federal charges within minutes of a doctor issued. but experts say it would very likely go to the supreme court to decide whether that self pardon would hold and remember, it s a court that has a conservative majority, because of the nominations of mr. trump himself. the court we have right now is one i think is very receptive to the prospect of broad presidential power. keep in mind, these new federal charges of not the only legal issues faced by mr. trump. you ve been charged in new york related to hush money payments and has pleaded not guilty, but those are state level crimes. so, a presi
have power to grant pardons, except in cases of impeachment. that is it. nothing on self pardons. the justice department tried to clear things up back in 1974. right before richard nixon got impeached. in a memo, the doj determined, basically no, a president cannot self pardon, because no one can be a judge in their own case. just like we don t let people be the prosecutor or the judge or the jury in their own case, the argument goes, you can t be the pardon error in your own. case reporter: since then, that legal opinion has never been tested. until maybe now. if mr. trump were to win the white house in 2024, he could try to pardon himself on those new federal charges within minutes of inauguration. but experts say it would very likely go to the supreme court to decide whether that self pardon would hold. and remember, it s a court that has a conservative majority because of the nominations of mr. trump himself. in the court that we have right now, it s one that i think is very
conduct and haven t been prosecuted yet. the question of whether or not the president can issue a self-pardon was not addressed in the constitution. that could be for a couple different reasons. one would be the notion of it was so silly that the framers thought we ll never have to deal with this. the closest they came was a discussion that if he is involved in criminalalty he may be impeached and may be prosecuted and it stands for the proposition that the president cannot self-pardon. do you think this could cause a situation that an amendment may be made to the constitution? it s never really been an issue. there is one work around. it seems like it s becoming an issue now. but to create a constitutional amendment as we know is a huge amount of legislative effort so that we i think we try not to address