Welcome to Meet the Press Now, I'm Kristen Welker on an historic day in Washington as the

United States Supreme Court weighs the limits of presidential power at the same time

as the former president sits in a criminal courtroom in New York for day three of

testimony in his hush money trial and as he faces new legal peril in Arizona

after being named an unindicted co-conspirator in an indictment tied to his team's efforts to overturn the

2020 election.

We will get to the developments in New York and Arizona in just a moment, but we do have to begin

right here in Washington. That's where the Supreme Court appears

likely to reject former President Trump's broad interpretation of presidential immunity.

But the court may send the question of presidential immunity back to the lower court

delaying his trial on charges he tried to overturn the last election until after the next

election. As lawyers for Mr. Trump argued that he had near total immunity

to act as president, they were pressed by some of the court's

liberal justices about the potentially alarming implications

of that argument.

If the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person and he orders the military or orders someone to assassinate him.

Is that within his official acts that for which he can get immunity?

It would depend on the hypothetical,

but we can see that could well be an official act.

They could.

How about if a president orders the military

to stage a coup?

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