The ex-president of the United States, two American courtrooms, facing criminal

trial in one. I'm going to go in now and sit in front of a case, and making a desperate

case to avoid justice in the other.

We will hear argument this morning case 23 939

Trump versus United States.

Tonight new testimony of the alleged criminal conspiracy to help elect Donald Trump.

Trump turned to the business at hand and asked David Packer, how is our girl?

As his argument for absolute immunity finally goes before the Supreme Court.

This court has never recognized absolute criminal immunity for any public official.

Petitioner turned to a private attorney was willing to spread knowingly false claims of election

fraud to spearhead his challenges to the election results.

Private?

What was up with a pardon for President Nixon?

If everybody thought that presidents couldn't be prosecuted then what was that about?

If it fails completely, it's because we've destroyed our democracy on our own, isn't it?

Tonight, Rachel Naddo, Nicole Wallace, Joy Reed, Chris Hayes, Lawrence O'Donnell, Alex Wagner,

Ari Melber, Katie Fang, and Lisa Rubin all here as MS NBC's special coverage of Trump on trial begins now.

Who has the time? You're telling me that simultaneously we've got nearly three hours of

oral argument at the United States Supreme Court about the former president claiming

he's totally immune from prosecution for any crime he did while he was president

and at the exact same time he's being criminally prosecuted in a New York courtroom where the first

star witness against him just had his first full day of testimony. Who has the

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