It's the Brian Layer Show on WNYC.

Good morning again everyone.

Some of you know our show is preempted yesterday

for live coverage of the oral arguments

at the Supreme Court on Donald Trump

and the insurrection clause of the Constitution.

The question was, can Colorado ban Trump from the presidential election ballot because

he engaged in an insurrection or gave aid in comfort to insurrectionists,

as the 14th Amendment said would be disqualifying.

The Colorado Supreme Court has in fact barred him from the ballot in that state for exactly those

reasons. Trump appealed to the Supreme Court and yesterday the lawyers for the

two sides fought it out. Now expert consensus seems to be that Trump won and

Colorado lost but let's see what our guests this morning thinks as we play a few

key excerpts and also discuss two other high stakes legal goings on at the same time the appeals

court ruling on whether Trump is immune from prosecution for anything he did as

president even fomenting an insurrection if he were to be found guilty of that.

And the Biden classified documents report issued by a special counsel yesterday.

This was on so few people's radar, but it created a firestorm over the

conclusion that while Biden did not commit a crime, that he did display memory

problems in his five hours of testimony.

Biden angrily denounced that finding last night,

as we will hear in a clip that we will play.

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