are decided before election day? plus, any minute now, president biden will be weighing in on the border bill, a last ditch effort to turn it into law. but, on the hill, is it already a lost cause? so we ll get to that, we start with the breaking news, the d.c. circuit court unanimously rejecting donald trump s claims of immunity from federal prosecution, declaring them to be contrary to the constitution and america s founding principles. this is a massive legal blow to the former president, in and of itself, but moves the d.c. election interference case closer to a trial, at least bombly. potentially. in the opinion, they said, we cannot accept forum president trump s claim that a president has unbounded authority to commit crimes that would neutralize the most fundamental check on executive power, the recognition and implementation of election results. and, in fact, they say, it would be a striking paradox if the president, who alone is vested with the constitutional du
The latest news from around the world with host Fredricka Whitfield. And then actually never really does do it. Like release his taxes, right. Then theres other cases where it overrides all common sense, all of his advice and everybody else and does do it. The big question is, is he going to do it in this case . We dont know what donald trump were fog to get on that particular day. Although his staff does say and his attorneys do say that his tweets, in effect, and his public statements amount to his own testimony so far and you can just read his tweets and read his mind and thats something muler is doing, to see if theres any condemning statements hes made in those tweets. Hes been warned about that for a very long time. The president continues, you know, to tweet. Whether he is saying disparaging things about the process, his own intel community, all of that. How will mueller use these tweets to his advantage . Even if they never get direct q a from the president . Yes, well, the twe
roger stone. so, steve, how do you see all of this connecting? well, the manhattan madam part admittedly might be a bit out of my expertise. but i think the hard thing that mueller has to do here and of course he s uniquely qualified, as is his team, is move from all these pieces of information, many of which have significant counterintelligence implications. what are key people doing. where is money moving. what are the connections back to russia. what malfeasance is going on. in moving from simply counterintelligence stuff, which is basically common sense suspicions and following patterns to a legal case where you can actually begin convicting people and saying, okay, the laws were broken here. i think common sensically, everybody can look back and say, look, there was a lot of no good stuff going on here. but turning that into a legal case is something that s a bit tougher. i do think, you know, for