welcome back to the weekend, everyone. we are beginning this hour with a late night court filing from donald trump s legal team. the filing argues that trump shouldn t be charged in the classified documents case because president biden was in charge and his case. this is true. i m going to quote from it. president biden will not be charged. president trump should not have been either. now, never mind that the special counsel made clear in his report that the two cases were wildly different. joining us now, january six investigator , also joining, former fbi general concert, andrew weizmann. he is the host of the msnbc podcast, prosecuting donald trump. greetings, everyone. you and i were on set to get there when the report broke. i do wonder if it was always inevitable that donald trump s lawyers were voting to cite this report as soon as it came out. also, talking about this specifically is a motion to compel discovery. i m curious why this becomes relevant and that ty
with the constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed were the sole officer capable of defying those laws with impunity. with us, paula reed, joan biskupic, also a team of the best lawyers on earth. first, to paula reed. tell us what the judges said here. reporter: so here, the d.c. circuit court rejecting former president trump s argument that presidential immunity should seeld him from the federal election subversion case. now this outcome was very much expected. he lost on this issue at the trial court, and a month ago when they held oral arguments on this question, the three judges hearing the case appeared quite skeptical of trump s lawyer s arguments that their client enjoyed near absolute immunity for anything that he did while in office. let s listen to this quote now from today s opinion. they say, quote, for the purpose of this criminal case, former president trump has become citizen trump. with all of the defenses of any other criminal de
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin the hour three days away from the new hampshire primary. on the campaign trail, the battle between donald trump and nikki haley is getting personal. the south carolina governor who hesitated to directly criticize the frontrunner is now attacking his mental fitness after this moment in new hampshire. by the way, they never report the crowd on january 6. you know, nikki haley nikki haley is in charge of security. of we offered her 10,000 people, soldiers, national guards, whatever they want they turned it down. good i m not saying anything derogatory. but when you re dealing with the pressures of a presidency, we can t have someone else that we question whether they re mentally fit to do this. haley taking ham at trump mixing up nikki haley and nancy pi losy in the remarks that trump pelosi in remarks that trump made at a rally. haley is rejecting the possibility saying being anyone s vice president
i m katy tur. the midterms did not go so well, for the gop, instead of a red wave, it was a trickle, one that could look more like a single drip if the pressure on george santos wins out. stay tuned on him for a moment. why did republicans don t so poorly? candidate quality was surely in play. denying the election was not exactly a winning strategy. and showing some controversy fatigue. all of the trump daum weighed the party down. but one of the biggest reasons republicans massively underperformed was arguably abortion. the overturning of roe v. wade, a gop dream for decades, was more of a nightmare for the general election. the party paid the price. instead of backing away from what was proven to be a wildly unpopular position, house republicans are running right toward it. today, the first two votes, speaker kevin mccarthy will bring to the floor will be on abortion. the first, protecting so-called pregnancy centers, and the second, protecting babies born alive after late
Ceasefire proposed by qatar and egypt. As it is really forces prepare to move into rafa for a limited scope information on the heels of the long promised Ground Defense in gaza. We begin this monday afternoon, im john roberts. Good morning to you. Sandra good morning to you. Im Gillian Turner and for sandra smith today. This is america report. They are Ordering Hundreds of thousands of palestinians in rafah to evacuate now. A senior officials calling them move a dangerous escalation that will have consequences paired john jeff paul is live on the ground for us in tel aviv with the latest for all this. Hamas agreeing to a ceasefire does not mean its a done deal. No. It certainly does not and hamas released a statement saying its political leader had a phone call with the qataris and the egyptians who have been involved in this intense mediation process saying they agreed to the deal that is on the table. Thats been discussed over the past week or so. The new question remains what wl isr