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Immunity Denied

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Mary Mccord, Legal, Andrew Weissmann, Msnbc, Politics, District Attorney, Trump, Trump Legal, President, Trump Indictment, News, Manhattan D.a., Trump Indicted, Trump Charged, Indictment, Alvin Bragg, Charges

4.86.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Two decisions deliver a massive blow to Donald Trump’s claims of presidential immunity.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of prosecuting Donald Trump. It is December 4th and I'm here with my co-host

0:16.3

Mary McCord and Mary there's so much to talk about it was actually in the last couple days we were like trying to do

0:23.9

triage on exactly what to cover but there were some really big rulings that

0:29.5

happened like sort of one-two punch from DC both the trial court and the court of

0:36.8

appeals both dealing with presidential immunity so we're going to cover

0:41.3

those and talk about them.

0:42.8

Yeah.

0:43.8

It was kind of remarkable because literally the decisions were issued within hours and they were both

0:49.0

big blows to Donald Trump, one saying you're not absolutely immune from criminal prosecution,

0:55.8

and we'll spend quite a lot of time talking about that, and one saying, right now,

1:00.3

you're not immune from a civil lawsuit against you for injuries caused to people on January 6th.

1:07.2

So these are both significant decisions.

1:09.5

I was actually on air with Alicia Menendez who was covering for the wonderful Nicole Wallace while she is on parental leave with baby number two. But Alicia asked me, so when do you think we

1:27.8

can hear from Judge Chuckin and I said, well I think it will be imminently and I

1:32.4

said I think you will be imminently, and I said, I think, you know, certainly next week, but I had no idea,

1:36.2

like it was basically within minutes.

1:38.2

It was very imminently.

1:39.5

Yeah, exactly.

1:40.5

It was like the converse of the Fani Willis.

1:44.4

Imminence.

1:45.4

Months later.

1:46.4

Yeah.

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