are deciding whether donald trump is immune from prosecution. in other words, can a president do whatever he wants to in office? even order the assassination of a political rival? trump s team argues a qualified yes. what does that mean? and what did the judges say in response? plus, after the door plug blew on that alaska airlines flight, is it safe to fly? investigators now find there are major problems across boeing s 737 max 9 fleet. what went wrong on the assembly line and what s the fix? and does voting matter? what michelle obama says she is terrified of this election year. let s begin in washington because for the first time in our history, a federal appeals court is tasked with ruling on whether a president is above the law. you might say of course now, but donald trump s team argues actually yes, that congress has the primary authority that if congress doesn t impeach and convict first, then any official action is golden. can a president order seal team six to a
hamas war escalating just days after the u.n. approved a watered down resolution calling for aid to the embattled region as the toll of the war caused christmas celebrations to be canceled in bethlehem. and getting down to the wire in iowa where a gop presidential candidate spent the holiday weekend trying win over voters. did he make any headway? we re going to find out. and if you ve been dreaming of a white christmas, you re probably going to be disappointed. we re going to tell you why most people around the country will just have to keep dreaming. we begin this hour with the growing fight over whether former president trump can claim immunity to election interference charges. trump s legal team filed a brief with a federal appeals court in washington over the weekend asking it to toss out the federal election interference case against him. his lawyers arguing quote this. president trump has absolute immunity from prosecution for his official acts as president. so, they s
In court toda president trump s lawyer kept citing e impeachment judgment clause of the constitution. it is article one, section three, clause seven. it reads judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office and disquality education to hold and joy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the united states, but the party convicted shall never the less be liable and subject to trial, judgment, and punishment according to law. in layman s term, trump s team argues and that the courts only get to weigh in after congress both impeaches and then convicts. joining me now is nyu school of
Senate. can she? should she? i m not sure which question is harder to answer. there s no hard rule or procedure for the timing of the transmission of articles of impeachment from house to senate. supposedly the house managers bring they will to the senate. technically, if you don t have managers, you cannot deliver them. that sounds silly but the house does have the power over impeachment. so for at least one more vote, picking managers, arguably, they have never which means time. if the senate starts to complain, they could argue once impeaches, and you just impeached him taflt minimum any disputed delay will fight notion this is an ongoing crime and the president is a threat to do this again if not stopped. the urgency argument. so assuming you could probably dha a little at least, the question is, why delay? these people all want to go home for christmas. the word in the house and the
Look. trump s impeachment standing. impeached removed from office 50%. 46% say no. but just on impeaching him, forgetting the removal part, 54% say yes, 41% say no. so a pretty clear majority in this fox news poll on impeaching him. there s also a cbs poll that says roughly the same thing. 46% say yes, 39% say no. again, a clear plurality there. if impeaches and the senate remove, much closer number there. convict to remove 42%, don t convict or don t hold a trial 42%. so on that particular question, the removal much closer. two notable things here. one is you point out very static. very, very, very, very static. you could set your watch to this. keeps on ticking. look at this. impeach and removal from office, november 16th to december 15th