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CNN 5 Things
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🗓️ 2 July 2024
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| 0:00.0 | From CNN, I'm Fez Jameel with the five things you need to know for Tuesday, July 2nd. |
| 0:07.0 | President Joe Biden came out sharply against the Supreme Court's ruling |
| 0:12.0 | that presidents have an absolute immunity |
| 0:14.3 | from prosecution for core official acts. |
| 0:17.0 | There are no kings in America. Each, each of us is equal before the law. |
| 0:22.8 | No one, no one is above the law, not even the President of the United States. |
| 0:28.5 | But Biden's comments last night were less about him and more about former President Donald Trump. |
| 0:34.0 | The Supreme Court ruled, along ideological lines, that Trump can claim immunity from criminal prosecution |
| 0:40.0 | for some of the actions he took as president before leaving office. |
| 0:45.0 | But as CNN's Caitlin Palans tells us, the justices didn't give Trump everything he wanted. |
| 0:50.0 | What's not protected is things that are in what the court calls a twilight zone or the |
| 0:56.4 | unofficial actions of someone serving in the office, someone as a campaigner or |
| 1:00.4 | someone doing things outside of the presidency. |
| 1:03.0 | What that means for Trump is that there is a possible path for the Justice Department |
| 1:08.0 | still to take him to trial. |
| 1:10.0 | That likely means more hearings, written arguments, |
| 1:12.8 | and even proceedings in some of the cases Trump is facing |
| 1:16.0 | that could add significant delays. |
| 1:18.6 | And only hours after the ruling, |
| 1:20.8 | a source says that Trump's legal team cited the decision and moved to |
| 1:24.4 | overturn his conviction in the New York hush money case. |
| 1:27.6 | This is this is madness. I have never seen this in my 46 years of life. |
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