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🗓️ 30 April 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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0:00.0 | Previously on breakdown. |
0:03.0 | The political discourse, the political speech, the more significant it is to certain issues, |
0:09.0 | clearly being President of the United States at the time dealing with elections and campaigning, |
0:14.8 | calling into question whether what had occurred at least in the election of 2020 for President. |
0:20.8 | That's the height of political speech. |
0:23.8 | It's not just that he lied over and over and over again, |
0:27.7 | as counsel for the defendant points out |
0:29.7 | by listing all of the instances in the indictment, |
0:32.1 | is that each of those was employed as part of criminal activity with criminal intentions. |
0:38.6 | In our last season, breakdowns resident legal expert Don Samuel predicted the case against former |
0:43.8 | president Donald Trump would likely go to the US Supreme Court before it ever |
0:47.8 | went before a jury. Was he ever right? During the Special Purpose Grand Jury investigation here in Georgia, |
0:54.4 | Senator Lindsey Graham fought his subpoena to testify all the way to the nation's |
0:59.1 | highest court and lost. Now, this past week, the US Supreme Court heard arguments on an issue that again |
1:07.1 | directly impacts the case against Trump here in Fulton County, whether the former president has immunity from prosecution. |
1:15.1 | It was quite something to hear all the justices weigh in on this enormously important issue. |
1:20.6 | And it's an issue that not only will impact the cases against the former president in Fulton County and Washington, D.C., |
1:27.0 | but Presidencies for generations to come. |
1:30.0 | And you'll hear that during the arguments, which lasted more than two and a half hours. |
1:35.6 | We'll get into that in just a moment. |
1:37.8 | We also have some news to share about ongoing developments in the Fulton case against Trump and his 14 remaining co-defendants. |
1:46.0 | And we have a highly unusual appearance by a lawyer arguing a case before the Georgia Supreme Court. Like we often say, you can't make this stuff up. |
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