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Laura Coates Live

Is a President of the United States above the law?

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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4.22.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Special Counsel Jack Smith calls Trump's bluff - next stop the Supreme Court. He’s asking the Justices to decide whether Trump is, in fact, protected by presidential immunity in the election subversion case in Washington, DC. Plus, the Texas Supreme Court strikes down a ruling allowing a woman’s emergency abortion, hours after she left the state for the procedure. And, a jury is to decide how much Rudy Giuliani must pay two election workers he defamed after the 2020 race. Also tonight: George Santos is in talks for a possible plea deal, and Elon Musk reactivates Alex Jones’ X account after a 5-year ban. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Well, Jack Smith calls Donald Trump's Bluck.

0:04.0

Next stop, the Supreme Court.

0:06.0

Tonight on Laura Coates Live. So this is a very big deal. You've got nine justices, three with them

0:18.4

appointed by the then President Donald Trump and they're being asked to

0:21.8

decide what comes down to one very simple

0:24.9

question is a president of the United States above the law. Now it should be

0:29.4

simple you've heard that phrase how many times and of course we say nobody is above the law correct it's

0:34.8

why the lady justice wears that blindfold but that's not what Trump's legal

0:39.2

team thinks they've been arguing for a long time along the lines of what you'd call maybe the

0:43.5

Nixon doctrine if the president does it it's not illegal you know how that worked

0:48.3

out for Richard Nixon don't we but how will it work out for Donald Trump? Well Jack Smith does not want to sit around

0:55.3

and wait to find out he's going straight to the Supreme Court decide whether Trump

0:59.8

is in fact protected by the presidential immunity in the election

1:03.8

aversion case in Washington DC and tonight a preliminary win of sorts will

1:08.9

explain why for special counsel they are saying now they're gonna fast

1:12.3

track at least the pondering of

1:14.4

whether to actually take on the request for information and a ruling.

1:17.8

I'll read the T-Lis a little bit tonight because the Supreme Court is about to make a

1:21.7

very big decision about what a president can and

1:24.8

cannot do, what is presidential behavior, what's covered in all of these things,

1:29.8

and of course what does it mean for Trump's other cases?

1:33.7

I want to bring a now see at legal analysts and former federal prosecutor

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