everyone. you are in the cnn newsroom i m alison camerota in new york. tonight as president biden and democrats are scrambling to contain the fallout from this week s presidential debate. there s another blockbuster prevent on the horizon. the supreme court is set to end its term monday with what will be one of the most consequential decisions in american history can former president trump assert presidential immunity in the federal election subversion case concerning january 6. the implications are hard to overstate legally and politically and that s not the only major decision coming down from the court this week. cnn supreme court analyst joan biskupic joins us now joan, great to see you. i know it s a huge week. so let s start help us put this immunity ruling in context. what are the implications? sure. it s so good to be with you, allison you know, we re on the very last de and 48 hours. the supreme court will answer a question that hit is never addressed before, wheth
could not have been more wrong on about the job of iceberg, which he described as quote, the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination can see. now, just expected john adams. it just never occurred to him that america would have a president like donald trump. trump, it can be argued, sees the job of vice president as very significant. good evening. i m jim acosta and for laura on this friday night? the last time donald trump had a vice president, it ended like this with a mob of trump supporters storming the capitol, demanding day hang mike pence, punishment for not going along with trump s plans to subvert the 2020 election. as we all witnessed, trump saw the job of vice president as an aide he said the whole for maintaining the presidency, no matter what the voters decided. this time around, trump is likely applying a pence proved loyalty test before he picks a running mate, someone who won t let them down, no matter what. and
today. i ll see you back here next saturday at adm. eastern smerconish is up next setting the bar i m michael smerconish in philadelphia, thursday here on cnn is the first of two scheduled debates between president biden and trump. jake tapper and dana bash will moderate the debate will last 90 minutes with no live audience. there will be no opening statements, answers will be two minutes rebuttals will be one-minute closing statements will be two minutes based on a coin toss, trump will go last. there will be two commercial breaks and perhaps the biggest wrinkle microphones will be muted when it s not someone s turn the stakes are high. the racist tight weather measured in national surveys or by battleground states. so the debate is a very big deal and opinions as to who won will no longer be influenced by expectations advantage joe biden. and here s why call it, be careful what you wish for in the last two weeks, president biden traveled overseas to participate in a
actions the attorney general merrick garland oversaw actions that were taken by jack smith, the special counsel. she wanted to know, for instance, whether the attorney general, specifically on personally approved the indictment. this indictment against donald trump and a couple of other people who worked for him here in fort pierce. and she also questioned trump s attorneys when trump s attorneys emil bove beauvais, said that he believed that jack smith was essentially a shadow government the argument that they were making here today will, was that jack smith was illegally appointed by the attorney general because he came from outside the government. he s not someone who has been approved by the senate. this is a long-shot request, but it is one that the judge for some reason decided needed to be heard, needed to have have an entire hearing. and she also allowed outside parties are groups that had nothing to do with this case, to actually spend a couple of hours making argume