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
office and in the west wing. and they are talking to more and more people that are familiar with those events in the days leading up to and on january 6th. ryan nobles, thanks. in the days after january 6th, republican lawmakers promised to take action, pledged to hold trump accountable and now a vast majority of those very same individuals are silent or, worse, stonewalling the investigation. whitewashing the attack on congress on democracy. so what do republican voters make of this? when asked to briefly describe january 6th a year later using just a word or so, members of a republican focus group used these words. way overblown. scary. misrepresented. out of proportion. republican strategist and pollster chris andersen led that focus group discussion on behalf of the new york times and joins us now. kristen, six of the republicans vote forward trump in 2020. 2 did not. was there an obvious divide