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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

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🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Jen Psaki is joined by all-star legal analysts Neal Katyal, Andrew Weissmann, and Lisa Rubin to discuss what went down at the Supreme Court, where Trump lawyers argued for sweeping presidential immunity, as well as the latest in Trump's criminal fraud trial in New York. Former White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain also joined to talk about the stark contrast between the former President spending most of his time in court while Joe Biden campaigns for a second term. And hosts of the podcast Pod Save America, Jon Lovett and Jon Favreau, talk to Jen about their thoughts on how Trump's legal troubles might impact the 2024 election results and how close the presidential would be between voters who seem unsure about both candidates. Finally, Jen addresses the latest indictments of Trump's cronies in the state of Arizona.

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0:00.0	Okay, even by 2024 standards, this week was a lot.
0:04.8	Donald Trump watched key witnesses testify against him in one courtroom while his lawyers
0:09.6	made their absolutely bonkers case for presidential immunity in another.
0:14.2	Our favorite legal eagles were inside both of those rooms this week, and they're going to
0:18.1	tell us everything we need to know about what comes next.
0:21.1	Plus, with Trump tied up in court, Joe Biden is doing his best to get under his skin,
0:26.0	and it kind of seems to be working.
0:27.9	A laus former White House Chief of Staff Ron Clayne what he thinks about that strategy.
0:32.1	And later, a little bit of everything with two of my favorite people to talk politics with.
0:36.4	John Lovett and John Favreau of
0:38.1	Pod Save America.
0:48.9	Okay, it's safe to say, and I'm sure you're tracking this, that there was a lot of legal
0:53.2	news this week.
0:54.5	In a courtroom in downtown Manhattan, there were hours of testimony about Donald Trump and the
0:59.4	National Enquirer and how they worked together to kill stories that might hurt his chances in 2016.
1:05.1	Learned a lot about that. Here in Washington, inside the Supreme Court, Trump's lawyers were making
1:09.6	the argument that, sure,
1:11.6	killing your political rival would be completely fine for a president. That was their argument.
1:15.8	I mean, it's been a lot to take in. But what happened this week matters. It should matter to you,
1:21.7	all of us. And it's important to talk about why, especially during these moments when it feels like
1:27.3	we're all drinking from a
1:28.6	news fire hose. So we're going to start on Thursday at the Supreme Court. Because when you listen
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