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It's Complicated

Episode 57 - Immunity Insanity

It's Complicated

Renato Mariotti

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This week, Trump’s lawyers argue for presidential immunity in front of the DC Circuit Court; one of Trump’s co-defendants in Fulton County makes some big allegations against Fani Willis; plus Henry’s the boss, and Pancake has bad manners.

Transcript

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0:00.0

M.S.W. Media.

0:07.6

So, Asha, you spent hours today

0:10.0

listening to Trump's lawyers argue about absolute immunity.

0:14.0

What were his absolute immunity arguments?

0:17.0

It's complicated.

0:20.0

I'm Asha Rengappa. I teach national security law at Yale University. I'm a former FBI special

0:29.8

agent and a legal contributor for ABC News.

0:33.4

And I'm Renata Marriott.

0:35.2

I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer,

0:38.6

and a legal analyst.

0:40.7

And we're here to help you understand topics that can't be boiled down into a sound like

0:45.0

worth.

0:47.0

See.

0:50.0

Yeah, I listen to the whole oral argument today.

0:56.0

I'm sorry to hear that.

0:58.0

It was actually really interesting.

1:00.0

You know, I enjoy listening to appellate advocacy and I found the questions to be from the from the panel to be very good and

1:18.4

really elucidating what we would call, you know, the limiting principle of of Trump's claims to absolute immunity and I thought it highlighted a lot of I was

1:30.2

surprised to see Trump's lawyers double down on the position even given the extreme

1:39.4

scenarios that would result if their position were true.

1:45.0

Yeah, I did hear the portion about SEAL Team 6, so we'll have to swing back to that.

1:50.0

I was mostly, yeah, that it was something that was some really good

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