The Appeals Court hearing on Donald Trumps Immunity Hearing has wrapped up. The threejudge appellant panel facing this big question can the former president be held criminally responsible for actions that he took while in office to overturn the 2020 election loss. We heard a remarkable argument from trumps team who heard the argument that prosecuting a former president would open up a pandoras box as john sauer said that working in the capacity as alleged in the indictment by jack smith, the Special Counsels office pushing back on that. This notion that we are all of the sudden going to be seeing a floodgate, i think that, again, the careful investigations in the clinton era didnt result in any charges. The fact that this investigation did doesnt reflect that we are going to see a sea change of vindictive titfortat prosecutions in the future. I think it reflects fundamentally unprecedented nature of the criminal charges here. Cnns evan perez joins us now. Evan, you were inside of that
the appeals court hearing on donald trump s immunity hearing has wrapped up. the three-judge appellant panel facing this big question can the former president be held criminally responsible for actions that he took while in office to overturn the 2020 election loss. we heard a remarkable argument from trump s team who heard the argument that prosecuting a former president would open up a pandora s box as john sauer said that working in the capacity as alleged in the indictment by jack smith, the special counsel s office pushing back on that. this notion that we are all of the sudden going to be seeing a floodgate, i think that, again, the careful investigations in the clinton era didn t result in any charges. the fact that this investigation did doesn t reflect that we are going to see a sea change of vindictive tit-for-tat prosecutions in the future. i think it reflects fundamentally unprecedented nature of the criminal charges here. cnn s evan perez joins us now. ev
harris: we begin with a fox news alert. a critical day for donald trump inside washington, d.c. courtroom. some of his rivals are on the ground in iowa. the former president is appealing for the all-important immunity in his federal election case. oral arguments just wrapping up in that moments ago. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. the former president arrived to the court earlier today. a three-judge panel heard arguments in connection with special counsel jack smith s election interference case. no ruling will be issued from the bench and the court gave no indication when their written opinion would be issued. trump did not testify today but he was there and the u.s. supreme court denied special counsel jack smith s request to leap track the appellate progress to get to the court date in march. the issue could come back to the u.s. supreme court, though. the criminal trial before the district court is on hold until this whole thing is cleared up. i
tonight may soon be the top story in the markets or even on main street. the president summoning leaders to the white house scheduled for next week to face what they re now calling a far more urgent threat of default with some republicans threatening to take the economy hostage. the final deadline is earlier in the month, republicans doubling down on threats which you may recall picked up in the obama years that instead of voting against new spending, which is the standard way that a politician or a legislator can curb the size of government, totally fine, you say, hey, let s not spend as much. nowadays you may have heard, republicans try to hijack the process of paying the bill, the debt, and they do that as a sort of a voodoo to scare the market, scare the white house, e tract concessions and keep the government from paying the bills it has, that includes naturally bills run up by both democrats and republicans, including recent spending under former president trump. we
questions about the integrity of americans banks. she says americans are not on the hook for paying back the depositors. john: critics call it a bailout, the biden administration refuses to call it that. and why some think we are headed for a banking tsunami caused by woke obsessed bankers. sandra: but first, it s going to be a breaking news two hours ahead, waiting two separate briefings from the white house and the pentagon how the u.s. will handle russia. all this after dramatic new video showing moments a russian war plane downed a u.s. drone over international air space. hello, welcome, sandra smith in new york. john: happy friday eve to you. america reports. in the 42-second video clip, you can see the plane dumping fuel on the reaper drone before colliding with its propeller over the black sea, russian ships are at the crash site trying to obtain debris, the u.s. does not have any ships in the area. sandra: not only are we there, we are told they rushed ther