Important discussions we have had this week. The Supreme Court has agreed now to consider former President Trumps claim of president ial immunity in his federal Election Interference case. We it will further delay a potential trial. The high court has scheduled arguments for april 22nd, and a final ruling might not come until months later at the end of the term in june. If the court ruled in favor of trump the special counsels charges would be dismissed. The u. S. Court of appeals unanimously ruled trump does not have absolute immunity. The Supreme Court does affirmed that, the delays still would push the start of the trial probably into the fall. Lets bring in former litigator and msnbc Legal Correspondent lisa rubin, and former u. S. Attorney and msnbc legal analyst joyce vance. Good morning to you both. Lisa, lets pause for a moment, i think this was shocking used a lot of people, lets talk about what the decision is and what it is not, it does not mean the supreme agrees that donal
West palm beach airport, following the president s First Physical exam as president. According to his doctor at walter reed, the exam went, quote, exceptionally well and further details on tuesday. Before leaving washington for this Martin Luther king holiday weekend, trump signed a proclamation expanding site, with questions from the president about remarks about haiti, el salvador the day before. And throughout the day, republican lawmakers in florida, including senator marco rubio and congressman carlos ro bechlt. Llo strongly distanced themselves from the remarks, all in a state, florida, a home to many immigrants and their families, including 300,000 haitianamericans, most in south florida, some of whom protested the president s comments. And republican governor rick scott also reacted to trumps
for so long. Do you get the sense that hes sort of distracting from his own Policy Agenda with the comments he made this week about other countries, whether true or not, with tweets he put
The january 6th committee has sent letters to three more republican congressman, asking for their cooperation, in its investigation. the committee wants to hear from congressman andy bigs, brooks and ronny jackson. in the letter to congressman big, the select committee states they want to discuss his participation in planning certain speaks surrounding the 6th. that includes efforts to get then vice president mike pence to reject the electoral votes from certain states, efforts to bring protesters to the capitol, efforts to persuade state officials to overturn the election, and efforts to seek presidential pardons for those caught up in the scandal. the committee also wants to speak with congressman mill brooks who say trump asked him to rescind the 202 election as a results. this is the conversation that vaun hilliard had with congressman brooks back in march. did he directly tell you to
His word, i think the public sentiment will be pretty harsh. so they have three weeks to come up. mcconnell ceep h word, congressman big, the vote mace not be there. the votes may not be there and let s say the votes are there and then it goes to the house. no companion promise there. and it s much tougher footing for the dreamer, as you well know. that s right. we were given no assurances by paul ryan. and truly, chris, i do not believe donald trump will sign the dream act. we saw who he was. his best day was the tuesday when he had a bipartisan group in front of him. bill of love. he said bring to it me, i ll sign it. two days later we seau uaw who really was. he was influenced by the outside voices. i m afraid we re going to have to change the white house if we re truly going to get action. what about your leadership? who are they influenced by to go along with this? certainly the leadership in the house we stood firmly together. and i believe chuck schumer, he has thr
Dream only piece of legislation now. and in a statement yesterday, she said, quote, in october, the president wrongly decided to terminate daca. since that time. the president has constantly said he supports daca. what is clear is it that we must insist on a clean dream act, which is supported overwhelmingly by the american people, has bipartisan support in congress and must be enacted in january. but that doesn t sit well with republicans who wants border security or those who want to end chain migration. or those who don t want legal status for young, illegal immigrants. some of these people that are negotiating from the other side, aren t there in good faith. i think that they re there trying to make their political point, and they don t really want daca, they want the dream act. that s what they want. they re calling it daca, but they want a path to citizenship, a path to amnesty and that s part of the problem. congressman big says he does