Welcome to the beat, everyone. We are beginning with a big show. We just have former Supreme Court Justice Stephen breyer joining us tonight. He recently retired, you may recall, and crated the vacancy for his former clerk. He is here tonight. And the coauthor of the art of the deal, tony swarts, returns with insight on Donald Trumps life as a defendant and a warning for any possible second term our top story is the latest in the legal problems that are swirling around trump considering right now he begins this week facing new testimony in the criminal trials a ruling on those gag order violations alleged by the d. A. Fallout from new indictments of 18 allies for Election Crimes in the states. Outrage over his own Supreme Court lawyers claims about this license to kill and the oral arguments which we got at the end of last week. The problems are breaking through in many different ways. In fact here is one way to put it. The collision of so many cases within a five day span underscores
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
western governments, and 39 palestinian prisoners who d been held in israeli prisons. more israeli hostages and palestinian prisoners are expected to be released today. our middle east correspondent yolande knell reports on a rare moment of hope in the conflict. on arrival to celebrate as this is really childrens hospital as some of the free hostages were flown in last night, much to the relief and happiness of a crowd of well wishers. the women and children were said to be physically well. altogether, 13 israelis were released after they spent almost seven weeks being held captive by hamas in gaza. along with 11 foreign workers. earliervideo hamas in gaza. along with 11 foreign workers. earlier video released by the military wing of hamas shows the moment they were taken to vehicles belonging to the international committee of the red cross. these are the youngest of the hostages, aviv, too, and her sister, for , shown in a family video. they were snatched by hamas gunmen
i m bret baier. breaking tonight. the u.s. supreme court issued a landmark ruling that presidents have some immunity from prosecution. it is a newanced decision that hinges on what is and is not considered an official act the immediate after effect the issues may delay push them past the november election. fox news chief legal correspondent, anchor of fox news sunday shannon bream starts us off with all of this tonight. good evening, shannon. good evening, bret it. is a win for the trump legal team today in the sense that it delays special counsel jack smith s case against him it. does not completely extinguish very real three threats. writing for the majority, chief justice roberts said no president is above the law. but that, quote: the president may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers. and he is entitled at a minute pump to a presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. that immunity applies equally to all occupants of
directly inaccurate or excising very important things like racism and america s problematic history with race from history, which means that kids in some of these classrooms won t necessarily get the facts about where we re coming from. consider this, a top school official in oklahoma saying the race massacre should be taught but without mentioning race. gop state superintendent wayne walters discussing how you could teach that, why it wouldn t violate the ban on critical race theory in schools. i would say you be judgmental of the issue, of the action, of the content of the character of the individual, absolutely. but let s not tie it to the skin color and say that the skin color saying let s not tie it to the skin color has a strange orwellian echo of some of what we heard from the supreme court last week. notice how these different people, often on the right, are talking about color blindness or