What well garland do. Im Michael Smerconish in philadelphia, Attorney General Merrick Garland may eventually make a singular decision that determines the outcome of the 2024 election, whether the doj will continue to push for donald trump to be tried before election day in the federal case, premised on alleged Election Interference for months. Here, ive delivered commentaries focused on the timing of this particular prosecution because i think its most perilous to trump, and ive often done so with the assistance of elie honig will join me again in a moment. Heres the issue on wednesday, scotus granted cert and announced that the high court will hear Donald Trumps Immunity Defense i dont think the ultimate outcome is in dispute. I think trump loses that claim. In my opinion, its unlikely its illogical that the court will provide Blanket Immunity from criminal prosecution to an american president more important is the process, the timing of the courts Decision Garland told cnns evan pere
former president trump asserts that there was a politicized process that resulted in his prosecution related to classified documents and other things? so for the public, if democrats and this administration say trust the department of justice, trust the institutions, but you re also arguing here gratuitous political cheap shots and false assertions. how are they to process this? i talked about this a minute ago, and i think, you know, when you have the former attorney general, when you have the former acting fbi director, when you have the former general counsel of the fbi, you know, these are experienced people at the justice department who spent decades working at the justice department and they re saying it s gratuitous, this isn t appropriate. this is inconsistent with the doj policy and practice. that s them saying it. we agree. you heard the president speak forcefully about this last night. you heard the vice president speak forcefully about this today. we agree that
to find out how you can get your lexus at 80% less than prescription hearing aid prices roger on capitol hill, and this is cnn. seismic ruling conservative judge reverses the fda is decades old approval of the abortion pill. i am flabbergasted. democrats say they ll fight to protect abortion rights. this ruling is in extreme abuse of power. but why are republicans staying so silent after such a big policy way? plus showdown in tennessee. we must be out of order to get justice and that s what we ll do to black democrats expelled from the statehouse protest over gun laws. what does it tell us about the state of the union and donald trump s legal peril grows , but so does his lead in the race for the gop nomination. the only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation. hello and welcome to inside politics. i m abby phillip. it has been a dizzying week in american politics, beginning with the indictment of a former president and now ending with a dramatic court
line before he came here to the new york city area to potentially target officers on years eve. cory, as you can imagine, this place was bustling, it was packed. tens of thousands of people here at the times square area. there were certainly a lot of chaos shortly after this knife attack. officials are saying they were able to secure the area quickly. and then they carried out this press conference earlier this morning with an update. take a listen. one officer, any year veteran, suffered a laceration to the head. the second officer who graduated police academy on friday was also struck in the head. resulting in a skull fletcher and large lacerations. one of the officers fired their service weapon. striking the subject of these shoulder. the three officers removed to bellevue hospital rivalry for to report that they are in stable condition. cory, we are still waiting for an update on those officers. but they are expected to survive. officials are saying that there is no l
anderson, thank you very much. does former vice president mike pence really mean it when he says it s willing to sit down with the january 6th committee to tell him what he knows? it sort of sounded like he meant it when he said this in new hampshire today. if there was an invitation to participate, i would consider it. it would be unprecedented in history for a vice president to be summoned to testify on capitol hill. but as i said, i don t want to prejudge. if a formal invitation were rendered to us, we would give it consideration. but wait, there s more. the chairman of the committee, bennie thompson, said nearly two months ago the panel did invite former vice president mike pence to come in and talk to them. we would love to have former vice president pence s testimony. we have sought it, we ve talked to his attorneys in the past. okay. and then what about the next part? mr. pence claimed it would be, quote, unprecedented for a former vice president to testify