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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

A Compromised "Immune System": Trump Appeals to SCOTUS

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

NBC News

News, Politics

4.5 • 664 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Jen Psaki delves into Donald Trump and his legal team’s continued delay tactics, as he spends his week in courtrooms across the country. Former Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. joins to analyze Trump’s presidential immunity arguments and what the timeline for the former President’s multiple legal cases may look like. Next, attorney Bob Bauer takes us inside the room where Special Counsel Robert Hur interviewed his client, President Biden. Among other things, Bauer discusses the types of questions that Hur asked of the President for over 5 hours in what should have been an open and shut case. Jen breaks down how Trump’s comments inviting Vladimir Putin to attack NATO allies undermine the work President Biden has done to reaffirm the United States’ position on the world stage. Jen is joined by Senator Tim Kaine who calls out his colleagues who once supported NATO but now are backing up the former President’s efforts to undermine the alliance. Finally, Jen explains why Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s MAGA-funded presidential campaign is an insult to the Kennedy legacy. MSNBC correspondent Vaughn Hillyard discusses the anti-vax appeal of RFK Jr. as well as Donald Trump’s endorsement of election denier Michael Whatley to lead the RNC.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, it's Monday, everyone, the start of a new week.

0:11.3

And if you're looking at your own personal calendar, you might see some meetings, some appointments.

0:16.4

Maybe you're going to see some friends, maybe a grocery run if you have time.

0:19.9

Let's just say the leading candidate for the Republican nominations calendar looks a little bit different.

0:25.3

Let's just say he's going to be spending a lot more time with lawyers than you are, or then I hope you are.

0:31.3

Now, just hours ago, Trump's team filed a hail mayor request for the Supreme Court asking them to pause the ruling from the

0:38.5

D.C. Circuit that rejected his claim of immunity. And earlier today in Florida, Trump showed up at a

0:44.2

federal courthouse for a closed door, high-stakes hearing on classified evidence in the Mara Lago

0:49.6

documents case. He has been busy. But wait, there's more. This Thursday in New York, the judge

0:55.9

overseeing Trump's hush money case may schedule the start of that criminal trial for as early as next

1:00.7

month. We'll see. We'll be watching. And this Friday, also in New York, the judge overseeing Trump's

1:06.0

civil fraud trial is expected to deliver his ruling on whether Trump can continue to do business in New York

1:11.8

and basically how many millions he will have to pay in damages. I mean, by any account, that is a

1:18.1

packed week. And it's a packed week in courtrooms all across the country. But I do want to zero in

1:24.0

on what is happening right now because just down the street at the Supreme Court here in Washington, Trump is where Trump is once again pressing the issue of presidential immunity. I mean, he's not physically there, as I just said, but this is something that he pushed forward today. Remember just last week, a federal appeals court unanimously ruled that Trump is not immune from prosecution on charges of

1:45.2

trying to overturn the 2020 election. That was just last week. Writing, former President Trump has

1:50.9

become citizen Trump with all of the defenses of any other criminal defendant. Citizen Trump.

1:58.8

Not immune from prosecution, not above the law. Imagine that. Trump, for one,

2:03.9

does not want to imagine that, which is why he is now asking the Supreme Court to intervene.

2:09.9

And we've already heard a lot of the arguments his team is now making in this filing, where we've heard them all before.

2:16.0

Like, say, the claim that a president can only

2:18.4

be prosecuted if Congress first impeaches and convicts him. For that one, by the way, they cite a

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