Should a president be able to "assassinate" his political opponents?
The News Agents - USA
Global
4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Is Trump above the law and should he have immunity from a case involving his actions around the January 6th insurrection?
That's what the Supreme Court has spent the last week arguing about. Amazingly, they might be making a case for why he checks notes... IS immune.
We hear from The New York Times Supreme Court supremo Adam Liptak.
Later is Joe Biden wise to joke about his age at the White House Correspondents Dinner?
And why did Trump's potential vice president pick shoot dead her pet puppy - and then boast about it?
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Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Production: Rory Symon
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | If the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person and he orders the military or orders someone to assassinate him, |
| 0:27.6 | is that within his official acts for which he can get immunity? |
| 0:32.6 | It would depend on the hypothetical, but we can see that could well be an official act. |
| 0:35.6 | They could and why, because he's doing it for personal reasons. |
| 0:39.4 | That was a question from Justice Sotomayor, one of the justices on the Supreme Court, |
| 0:46.4 | talking to Donald Trump's lawyer about the biggest question, arguably facing America right now, |
| 0:52.8 | which is whether a former president should have immunity from criminal acts. |
| 0:59.1 | In other words, whether he should be considered above the law. |
| 1:02.8 | And of course, the United States is a republic. |
| 1:06.5 | It is not a monarchy. |
| 1:09.2 | But Donald Trump seems to want kinglike powers so that he can never face |
| 1:14.9 | his criminal accusers. American democracy at what price? Welcome to the newsagents USA. |
| 1:30.0 | It's John. |
| 1:30.6 | It's Emily. |
| 1:36.1 | And we're going to be talking in some detail about that question of presidential immunity, |
| 1:45.9 | whether you can have absolute immunity or whether you can just pocket lots of things that President Trump might have done under this lovely umbrella term called official acts. We'll come on to that. But we've got to start with something else. And that is what |
| 1:50.2 | is happening at the criminal court in Centre Street in Manhattan on the 15th floor, which is where |
| 1:56.6 | Donald Trump is facing a trial for the hush money that was paid to the porn star Stormy Daniels. |
| 2:02.9 | Donald Trump has day after day after day being going after the judge, the clerk of the court, |
| 2:08.3 | the jury, anyone, everyone. It's not been subtle in his breaking of the gag order. But finally today, |
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