wallace. ever since charged were handed down against donald trump, the ex president has seen returning to the white house as his best defense. no one is more aware of this than jack smith. jack smith asked the supreme court to rule on donald trump s bid to have the charges ruled out because the alleged crimes took place while he was president. this is not new. judge tanya chutkan rejected that claim and trump appealed. jack smith is asking the supreme court to leap frog the appeals court and settle the matter once and for all. the special counsel s move setting up the first, but maybe not the last time, the supreme courtla a role in the united states versus donald trump. prosecutors say, quote, this caserents a fundamental question at the heart ofur democracy. whether a fmer president is absolutely immune from federal prosecution for crimes committed ile in office or is constitutionally protect from federal prosecution when he s been impeached by the house, but not convicte
capitol hill custodians waste no time erasing any memory of george santos. that s tonight on newsnight. good evening. i m abby phillip in washington. today, an era has come to an end. the locks have been changed, and his name has been removed from the halls of congress. george santos goes back to wherever he came from. more on his exit and his lies in a few minutes. first, the constitution versus donald trump. two separate legal lawsuits say that the former president does not have immunity. breaking tonight, a federal judge tossed a motion to make election subversion charges against donald trump disappear. judge tonya chutkan ruling with precision, quote, the court cannot conclude the constitution cloaks former presidents with absolute immunity for any federal crimes they committed while in office. also today, a ruling on the former president and the january 6th violence that he unleashed. it s a decision that may set off a chain reaction for our democracy. today a federa
Modernday Mitt Romney lane. Its not a big lane. She may galvanize that support and the key thing is will they turn out Tomorrow Night . I saw the enthusiasm of her supporters being low and im not so sure they want to go out on a cold, icy, snowy night to cast their vote for someone who will not wine in the iowa caucuses and not play second either. Trump is connecting with a different type of evangelical voter made the case that the former president s strongest supporter has identified with evangelicals dont necessarily attend church services themselves and im wondering if that tracks with what you have been seeing and if so what that means politically . Well, i think that is something that ive been tracking and its selfidentified evangelicals and i havent seen a drop in attendance with some of the evangelicals that support trump, and my concern always is is that
there is still solitary confinement. that is also apples to oranges, and if you want to know how dedicated josh mandell is, just tweet the people he was tied to. why? there is this push to the right with this big primary in the open senate race. there is, however, a rare sighting. there is one candidate who is running as a norn-trump republican. it s a rare thing these days, but his name is matt dolan, he is a senator from the cleveland area. he s looking at people like ross mandel, even the chairwoman, a very established figure, who is going after that trump endorsement and saying, there is another lane. there is a voinovich lane, a mitt romney lane, the current governor of ohio who is facing a sort of trumpian challenge from