Court rules Trump does not have immunity in Jan. 6 case
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 7 February 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump's presidential immunity claim today rejected by three federal |
| 0:07.8 | judges. The lead starts right now. A major blow to citizen Trump as the DC Federal Appeals Court denies his presidential |
| 0:17.8 | immunity defense. A conservative former judge is taking us inside |
| 0:22.1 | today's ruling, |
| 0:23.0 | plus his take on what might play out |
| 0:25.4 | if Citizen Trump takes his case to the US Supreme Court |
| 0:28.0 | where he appointed three of the justices. |
| 0:30.2 | And frustration from Capitol Hill all the way to the border with a bipartisan |
| 0:35.4 | immigration bill on the brink of collapse. Independent Arizona |
| 0:40.0 | Senator Kirsten Cinema helped write the bill. She'll be here and we'll talk to her about what, if any, options are left. Plus, the mother of a school shooter in Michigan found guilty today of involuntary manslaughter. |
| 0:53.9 | How this case might set a precedent nationwide. |
| 1:01.0 | Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper. We start today with our law and justice lead in a massive |
| 1:06.4 | legal defeat for Donald Trump. Today a federal appeals court in DC unanimously |
| 1:11.4 | ruled that Mr. Trump is not immune from prosecution for |
| 1:14.8 | alleged crimes he may have committed during his presidency as he attempted to |
| 1:19.0 | overturn the results of the 2020 election. The three federal judges strongly writing in their decision that quote |
| 1:25.1 | for the purpose of this criminal case former President Trump has become |
| 1:28.6 | citizen Trump with all of the defenses of any other criminal defendant, but any executive immunity |
| 1:35.4 | that may have protected him while he served as president no longer protects |
| 1:40.7 | him against this prosecution, the three female judges, two appointed |
| 1:45.0 | by Democrats, one by a Republican, went even further than that today however, |
| 1:48.9 | repeatedly eviscerating Citizen Trump's behavior after the 2020 election as an attack |
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