SCOTUS case tests DOJ trial for Trump coup

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

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🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Thursday, April 25, and reports on takeaways from the Supreme Court arguments on Donald Trump’s absolute immunity claims. Joyce Vance, Chai Komanduri, John Brennan, Emily Bazelon and Douglas Brinkley join to discuss. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the beat, I'm Ari Melber.
0:02.2	These are extraordinary times.
0:03.4	We're watching history unfold right now
0:05.2	at the Supreme Court, which heard arguments
0:07.1	about putting a president on trial today.
0:09.8	Historic, unprecedented.
0:11.6	All the words are true about this one.
0:14.1	No other president has been indicted like this, DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith,
0:18.1	memorably charging Trump for the failed coup and the plots leading up to Jan six.
0:22.4	Trump's lawyer is arguing he should be immune,
0:24.6	basically totally immune, because he was president
0:27.8	during those efforts.
0:29.5	Now that is a new relatively made-up claim,
0:32.1	which they lost unanimously before the respected
0:34.4	DC Court of Appeals. You should keep that in mind because that is the recent
0:38.8	precedent in context for today and you may remember that was the now infamous hearing where the
0:44.5	Trump lawyer openly claimed that as President Trump could have a license to
0:49.0	kill American opponents. That was the kind of chilling talk that many, many people across the spectrum rebuked then.
0:59.0	That kind of talk was back today with grave questions about murder and coups and Trump's lawyer saying it's okay
1:06.3	or it all depends.
1:09.6	Let's say this president who ordered the military to stage a coup?
1:13.2	Orders the military or order someone to assassinate him.
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