Welcome to the beat. I'm Jason Johnson and for Ari Melber. We start with breaking news.

Today Donald Trump telling the Supreme Court he should get quote absolute immunity from prosecution

That's his official stance in the jacksmith election case that is barreling towards a showdown at the Supreme Court.

Trump doubling down on his team's prior claim

that he can't be prosecuted even if he assassinated,

killed, assassinated his political rivals.

Could a president who ordered SEAL Team 6

to assassinate a political rival who was not impeached?

He'd be subject to criminal prosecution? If he were impeached

and convicted first. And so your answer is no. Today Trump's lawyers are going to quote, a former president enjoys absolute immunity

from criminal prosecution for his A denial of criminal immunity would incapacitate every future president with de facto black male and extortion.

The key to Trump's argument is his claim that trying to overturn the election was part of his official acts as

president, a claim that is absolute nonsense.

Trump's filing comparing January 6th to Clinton's airstrikes in the Middle East.

Bush's search for weapons of mass destruction,

and even President Biden's handling of the border.

I want to be clear, this is not about the presidency, this is about Trump. In recent days days he's made his true view of democracy abundantly clear to anyone who will listen.

If this election isn't one, I'm not sure that you'll ever have another election in this country.

Does that make sense? I don't think you're going to have another election in this country if we don't win this election.

But if near me. win this election. But it's near the end of today's brief that Trump's lawyers really go for broke, arguing that letting a president get away with his

crimes is actually just baked into the Constitution.

Quote, even if some level of presidential malfeasance were to escape punishment, that risk

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