claudia: welcome back to a special edition of fox news live. former president donald trump asking a federal appeals court to throw out the criminal case alleging he interfered in the 2020 election. the president and his legal team claiming absolute presidential immunity protects him from prosecution. welcome to a brand-new hour of fox news live. merry christmas, i m claudia cowen. i m rich edson. trump s filing with the u.s. court of appeals in d.c. comes one day after a big setback for special counsel jack smith. the u.s. supreme court refused his request to fast track his immunity claim for trump. the case hinges on whether president trump was acting as president or a candidate. his strategy is to run out the clock and he has a lot of tools to do that. and he may be successful. the issue here i think everyone agrees that there is something called absolute immunity for your official functions, if you are performing an official function the president has immunity and
president of united states his appointed attorney general, the director of fbi, the u.s. attorney, also appointed by president of the united states and special counsel appointed by the attorney general of the united states, what to we do as a country if they stonewall the house of representatives, majority of whom are republicans? what to we do if the national archives, also part of the executive branch is also stonewalling the republicans? what do we do if separation of powers is being violated by the eco the executive branch, and only body that we think that can enforce the law. this is what i want to talk to but. we have reac reached a points, with the most dangerous fbi today since history of the fbi. most dangerous department of justice since it was founded by grant in 1870. and we have most dangerous attorney general since george washington hand-picked an attorney general in 1795. attorney general did not become a person who would be confirmed by senate and head of depa
president of united states his appointed attorney general, the director of fbi, the u.s. attorney, also appointed by president of the united states and special counsel appointed by the attorney general of the united states, what to we do as a country if they stonewall the house of representatives, majority of whom are republicans? what to we do if the national archives, also part of the executive branch is also stonewalling the republicans? what do we do if separation of powers is being violated by the economyi the executive branch, and only body that we think that can enforce the law. this is what i want to talk to but. we have reach a reached a points, with the most dangerous fbi today since history of the fbi. most dangerous department of justice since it was founded by grant in 1870. and we have most dangerous attorney general since george washington hand-picked an attorney general in 1795. attorney general did not become a person who would be confirmed by senate and head
Light and spotty. But north boston, rhode island picked up over an inch. Framingham, were a an inch. Ed in aic, a quarter inch. Lexington, a tenth of an inch. The wait looks. Not impressive. Wet flakes to rain. No accumulation. Then a coating to an inch or more off to the north and the west. This is all rain in southeastern mass. A little bit of a mix north and west of boston. Still snowing. Northern worcester county, northward, you can see here as well. But here, connecticut, that is borderline freezing rain with temperature around 32. I95 east. Mild. It will get milder no problem. 29 degrees. So we still have a Winter Weather advisory from 495 north and west to that morning commute tomorrow. With the temperature will hover around 32 and some untreated surfaces could still be slippery. Now in terms of what is going to be happening. I want to show you a quick timeline. Notice the mix right in our area. There will be pockets of northern mass and Southern New Hampshire and borderline ici
Sure we will have a debate on the issues going forward. Questions . I am a longtime member of the club. Very impressive personality. An honorary southeastern citizen. Your question, please . On the five mystical things would you please respond to the senator five mystical things. Thank you very much. They were not mystical they were mystical. I have to say i cant write them all down. It has stymied negotiations at least from my perspective. The disagreement as whether or not part of disagreements or deaths of votes we will have additional revenue contribution achieved by closing some of the tax breaks. Reducing some of the tax expenditures. Mentioned some symbols, and i urge all of you to take a look , some symbols called for more revenue. Then the president s budget. I am glad a lot of our colleagues have embraced the framework and balanced, but sometimes they leave out the fact that some symbols concluded additional revenues concluded from the tax report. They have tax reform, but al