we will hear argument this morning in case 23-939. trump versus the united states. reporter: tonight, new testimony of the alleged criminal conspiracy to help elect donald trump. trump turned to the business at hand and asked david pecker how is our girl. as his argument for absolute immunity finally goes before the supreme court. this court has never recognized absolute criminal immunity for any public official. a private attorney to spearhead his challenges to the election results. what was up with the pardon for president nixon? if everybody thought that presidents couldn t be prosecuted what was that about? if it fails completely it is because we have destroyed our democracy on our own, isn t it? tonight, rachel maddow, nicole wallace, joy reed, chris liz. lawrence o donnell, lisa ruben all here as msnbc s special coverage of trump on trial begins now. who has the time? who has the time? you are telling me that simultaneously, we have nearly three hour
new testimony of the alleged criminal conspiracy to help elect donald trump. trump turned to the business at hand and asked david pecker, how is our girl? argument for absolute immunity goes before the supreme court. this court never recognized criminal immunity for any public official. a private attorney who was willingly to spearhead his challenges to the election results. what was up for the party with president nixon? if everybody thought presidents couldn t be prosecuted, then what was that about. if it feels completely, s because we destroyed our own democracy. rachel maddow, nicolle wallace troy reed, lawrence o donnell, ari melber, all here as msnbc special coverage of trump on trial begins. who has the time? who has the time? you are telling me that simultaneously we have nearly three hours of oral argument at the united states supreme court of the former president claiming he is immune from prosecution for any crime he did while president and debt
2016. on the left, congressman chris collins who was indicted on felony charges less than two weeks ago. he was the first to endorse donald trump for president. and then on the right side, that s congressman duncan hunter. he was the second sitting member of do know support donald trump for president and now today he too has been indicted on multiple felony charges. who was third? as i say, congressman duncan hunter probably considers himself lucky today. if you re going to get indicted, today was probably a pretty good day. because the news of his indictment arrived on a day like no other. in this remarkable scandal ridden candidacy. we actually called michael beschloss to ask if there s anything like this. has there ever been a single day in the news for any u.s. president that held similar
come one in u.s. history would be march 1st, 1974. that produced this headline the next day. march 1st, 1974, was the day a grand jury indicted richard nixon s campaign manage here he had nam
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the day s top political news stories.
but the president s own fate is a real front burner issue now because of what just happened with cohen and manafort. let s start with manafort. on manafort, you know by now the basics. manafort was convicted on eight felony counts. the jury in the manafort case was not able to reach a verdict on the other ten felony counts that manafort was facing. they didn t find him not guilty on those other ten charges. they just couldn t come to a decision. that gives the prosecution and the defense both some options here. on the counts where the jury didn t reach a verdict, there was a mistrial for those ten counts, than means prosecutors could decide to try paul manafort again on those ten counts. prosecutors have a choice as to whether or not they want to do that. on the other hand, there are the eight counts, the eight felony charges where the jurors did reach a verdict. on all eight charges they found him guilty. on those