They name. But certainly the former president s team has spent the day bracing for bad news. They appear to believe that this could potentially reference him. That his name could be one of those on those ten indictments that were returned. Theyve issues taken just a few moments ago. Lashing out at the District Attorney, fani willis here. Something that we have seen the former president doing repeatedly on social media in recent days. They are actually accusing them of Election Interference. Which we should note is, of course, ironic given that what the heart of the indictments potentially. Lets go back to cnn sarah murphy who has been outside the courthouse in atlanta all day. Sarah, obviously we are waiting to see when we are going to potentially hear from baku District Attorney, fani willis, that trump has been attacking here. Whats the latest that you have heard . , thats right, i mean, she is still expected to make remarks to the press this evening. But obviously they want to get t
that s going to do it for me today. deadline: white house starts now. hi everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. i m ali velshi in for nicolle wallace. an incredibly important question looming over democracy, can presidents be held accountable for crimes committed in office. a unanimous ruling by the d.c. court of appeals rejected donald trump s claims of immunitity in the federal election case. the decision by the judges is a stinging rebuke of the ex-president in what has become a months long push to get the charges against him dismissed. in their ruling, the judges make the point that while donald trump is a former president of the united states, he is in the eyes of the law, just another criminal defendant. for the purposes of this criminal case, frp has become citizen trump with all the any executive immunity that may have protected him while he served as president no longer protects him in this prosecution. prosecuting presidents for things they did in office would have
Been hearing. we are waiting to see all of that, and here all of that from the clerk. and then at some point this, evening from the voting county just returnee. sarah, i reference that trump campaign there, but i know you and i ve got an, asking we haven t heard anything, i mean, i haven t at least. i don t know if you have, either on whether or not trump himself has been notified of any potential deterrents? yeah, that is one thing that we haven t heard. we haven t gotten any indication that trump has officially received any kind of notification that he has been indicted. obviously, he is the center of this investigation. he is the biggest target voting country journey fully willis was looking at. you know, we talk about the potential racketeering charges, that sort of rests on the notion that donald trump is up ahead of this enterprise, that essentially is trying to overturn the 2020 election. but we have seen in some of these other indictments that trump team has been notified.
Don t judge me against the almighty, judge me against the alternative. i think people are stating him, seriously i think republicans are saying we don t really like donald trump, we might but we sure don t like biden and kamala harris, we don t want them in the white house anymore. that is what you re seeing, that s what s playing out here, and just as a van and others poll after poll, reportedly said that we don t want donald trump and joe biden against each other. i think if both candidates decide that if trump wins away biden will go away, we would be able to turn the page. i think that until that happens jeff duncan won t get the kind of mourning in america and bucolic republican party that he is hoping for. alyssa, what you used to work inside the trump white house and you saw this happen up close. mark meadows, donald trump, all of this. do you think that there is any chance that any of that criticism from the people who didn t work for trump, who certainly were loyal to hi