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going forward? >> hurricane barrow makes landfall as the first category storm of this season. french politicians aim to block the far right from securing an absolute majority in parliament. ♪ hello and welcome, i'm caitríona perry. we begin with a landmark decision by the u.s. supreme court which ruled that presidents are entitled to partial immunity from prosecution. it legally shields donald trump for official acts, but not for unofficial acts taken in a private capacity. determining what is official and unofficial has been left for lower courts to decide.

nday's ruling does provide examples of official business in the lead up to the january 2026 -- january 6 attack on the capital. donald trump is alleged to have pressurized the department of justice into investigating unfounded claims. of election fraud. and his conversations with that then vice president mike pence when mr. trump reportedly pushed him to not certify the 2020 election. chief justice john roberts delivered the opinion in the 6-3 ruling. liberal justice so to my said that three liberal justices believed the decision reshapes the institution of the presidency and that the president is king above the law. joining me now from the u.s. supreme court is our north

america correspondent. the court said that donald trump was acting in his official capacity, and is perceived to have immunity, but what does that mean for all of the charges? >> thais the big question, isn't it? what happens to the indictment going forward. the trial judge now has to work out which parts of the indictment meets the official act. which can be tossed out, which can be kept forward, what can go forward? this is going to take months and months. it is safe to say the trial will not happen before the presidential election. donald trump, we have been hearing it is a victory. we believe it is a defense of

the weaponization of the president against donald trump. they have made that without any evidence. for the democratic party, it is a loss. you are seeing fundraising emails in which they are saying they have stopped them from being held accountable, but americans can hold him accountable by not letting him win the white house. how much of this will matter to americans moving forward? there are so many issues on the table that they care about and we know that the confidence that the american people have, the american people do not have much confidence in the supreme court. they already considerate massively ideological and not impartial. >> the court sent the majority of the charges factor the district court for assessment. what will this mean for the other federal cases before donald trump? >> donald trump has indicated

that these other federal cases should be pulled off on his truth social networking site as it is called, he said jill biden should call off his dogs, to quote him. i think what we will see is more delays. the judge in the case has been very thorough. some say she is holding back the trial in going through everything. i would imagine this they may be true for the case in georgia, which is also tied up with lots of legal proceedings. the estate case that remains against donald trump will very likely not be heard before the election. with this case, if donald trump wins the white house, he will appoint a new justice department

and end the federal cases. >> thank you for joining us with that. in reaction to this, former president trump posted on truth social that the ruling is a big win for our constitution and democracy. the biden campaign said the ruling doesn't change the facts about what happened. a senior biden campaign advisor said donald trump snapped after he lost the 2020 election and encouraged a mob to overthrow the results of a free and fair election. the statement went on to say that he thinks he is above the law and is willing to do anything to gain and hold onto power for himself. let's talk some more about what all of this means for politics and law in this country. i'm joined by marcus childress and joining us now from kley

as thomas dupree. thomas, if i could start with you, you did work in the doj. this says official presidential business is immune and references conversations at the department of justice. does this mean everything the president does now, any president, not just the current esident, but any and all presidents, that they will have immunity for anything they do while in office? if thomas can hear us, can he? >> yes, sorry, yes. the answer is that yes, future presidents will enjoy this immunity. the supreme court jury fairly important line, they drew a line between official acts and unofficial acts, but they said not all official acts are not

necessarily entitled to immunity. they drew a further distinction between core constitutional duties. there is also a group of non-core constitutional duties that could potentially be subject to prosecution as a presumption of immunity, but it is not absolute. >> they didn't produce an official list of what was official and what was not official. >> that is where the evidentiary air hearings will come into play moving forward. prosecutors will have to present evidence to show may be calling the speaker of the house in arizona, is it going to chill the energy of the action? you were going to have to see moving forward, prosecutors will have to try to rebut this

presumption by presenting evidence that it is not part of the core. >> you were in court today when this judgment was handed down. do you think this creates a new doomsday scenario? >> whenever in our system, you think about the separation of there was an expansion ofy said executive power. that is what this order says, so i can understand fear of expanded residential power, but moving forward, it is important that you can plead these cases with more specificity, if it is an official act that it is not going to pose a danger, so why i think moving forward there might not be an express test to weigh the action, but there is action to weigh the evidence. put forth a full trial to show

the evidence outside of the doj context, but maybe with the states and the private actors clearly is not an official act and can be used in prosecution. >> marcus, do you think it will have a chilling effect that we have heard about and at one point there was a suggestion that special counsel's would no longer be a thing we would see. thomas. >> yes, the take on that is i do think there are members of the supreme court that have fundamental problems with the special counsel statute. justice thomas wrote about concerns with that. the rest of the majority is there concerns are with the dangers of permitting former presidents to be prosecuted. that was the real big clash, that the court majority was about the precedent of allowing presidents to prosecute

predecessors. the dissenters were concerned about not constraining the presidents and them being above the law. although there we lots of arguments that were underwriting the opinions, i think those two issues represented the fundamental clash between the nine justices today. >> is there clarity on that now? >> i think there is some clarity in that we know that presidents are not entirely immune and yet they still enjoy some immunity. that was a question that hadn't been answered before today. what remains unclear is precisely how you apply this standard to the facts of donald trump's case or a future case. that is where the rubber is ing to hit the road and that will be the real acid test of this standard, when the trial judge gets this case back, she will have to do a line by line parsing of the indictment to figure out which of these

allegations can be prosecuted. >> what thomas is outlining sounds like that will not happen before election day. >> i would expected to start before election day, but not be completed. i am moving to have the court hear the evidence so the judge can parse through it. we may not have a decision before the election, but i think the process hopefully will start so we can get justice moving forward sooner than later. >> for sure this is not the last time we will discuss this anyway , but for now, thank you both for joining me. >> thanks. >> steve bannon reported to prison monday.

he was defying a congressional subpoena. he claimed his conversations that they should be protected under executive privilege. on friday, the supreme court rejected a last-minute bid to delay his sentence sarah smith sat down with mr. bannon for an interview last week and began by asking him about how he felt about his prison sentence. >> it doesn't make any difference. i serve my country now for the last 10 or so years focusing on this. if i have to do it in prison, i do it in prison. >> we are several months away from the election. do you accept it is possible that joe biden could fairly win the election in november? >> impossible. early voting starts around mid-september in this country. we are only 100 days away from when it really starts. >> if you say it is impossible

for him to win fairly, you are declaring now that if he is declared the winner -- >> hang on. >> are you saying you will claim the election has been stolen? >> hang on, he didn't win in 2020. he is totally and completely illegitimate. this is the basic railhead. this is why this show, our audience have never wavered from this. >> you know that there are 60 court cases in which there was no evidence. >> that is not true, they didn't have standing. they did not have standing. this has never been adjudicated. >> if he is declared the winner, you will immediately cry foul? >> how do you say declared winner? declared winner by certification by the states? he will not get certified by the states. he would not have been certified if we didn't have the fiasco january 6. >> you are telling supporters they need to fight back.

what does that mean? >> it is not votes, it is balance. we have trained up an army of pull workers, poll watchers, election officials, we have been training up for years. lawyers are going to be ready and they will have filings ready to go and they will be outside the courthouse. >> just to clarify some of the remarks, president biden fairly won the election, that was certified by all 50 states in washington, d.c. according to a nonpartisan fact checking operation run by the poynter institute, donald trump selection fraud lawsuits failed due to error or lack of evidence. in addition, the associated press reviewed every case of potential voter fraud in the six battleground states and found fewer than 475. those cases would not have changed the outcome in any state. now, hurricane beryl made

landfall in the caribbean island of granada as a category four storm and it continues to head through the region, endangering several island communities with violent winds and flash flooding. here is a look at its predicted path. hurricane warnings are in effect in barbados and the grenadines and in tobago. weather forecasters have called the hurricanes potentially catastrophic as it is the earliest category 4 on record. people in the caribbean have been making emergency preparations as officials urge the public to heed the warnings. >> don't risk going to see. pull up your boat. we have to prepare, organize. >> get your precautionary stocks in place. a supply of water just in case.

ensure that your documents are secure. >> let's get the update on this story to our central america and caribbean correspondent, will grant. what is the current situation? ok, we seem to have a problem connecting with our correspondent, we will try to come back to him a little later. in france, exit polls from the first round of mentoring elections suggests the far right has made historic gains. marine le pen's national rally secured more than a third of the vote followed by a surge in support for a new left-wing coalition, leaving emmanuel macron's party and its allies in third place. he is calling for centrists and left-wing parties to unite rather than split the vote as the far right hopes to win a parliamentary majority in the second and final round of voting

next weekend. without an absolute majority, the national rally will be blocked from pushing through plans due to a hung parliament. just a warning, there are flashing images in this report. >> paris, the day after. for many, a profound sense of shock. it is like having a hangover, says a legal assistant of yesterday's election results. people are fed up with politics, says caroline, so they are turning to the extremes. it is like a play. when the far right comes to power, it holds on to power, warns this woman. they are all talking about this woman, marine le pen, whose party took the lead in sunday's vote. if her surname is familiar, that is because her father was a notorious far right politician,

a racist, and anti-semite. but his daughter has softened the platform and last night won big across the nation. her party's populist, anti-immigrant, euro skeptic and it's 28-year-old candidate for the prime minister's job finding broad appeal. >> more people that were workers , now u have also white collars voting for the national rally. you have women voting for the national rally, you have young people. >> meanwhile, france's president is in shock, no wonder it looked like he was trying to hide yesterday. his election gamble has backfired, his centrist party on track to lose heavily. so, what of plans to block the far right from sweeping to rate? this afternoon, different parties aiming to form a united

front against the national rally, but the divisions are all too evident. the leader of the green party brought to tears of frustration during this debate. france is still digesting the shock of yesterday's election results. love it or loathe it, the national rally is now at the heart of france's political mainstream. more than that, it is the most powerful party across the country. but can it translate that into enough seats in parliament to win outright? if it can, france will be changed utterly. bbc news, paris. >> the israeli army ordered a mass evacuation of palestinians for much of khan yunis and rafah on monday. witnesses say that many people are already fleeing after

receiving audio messages telling them to leave. the director of a hospital in gaza who has been released after more than seven months of israeli detention says he was tortured while in custody. he is among dozens of palestinian prisoners who were the israeli prison service said it was not aware of his claims. our middle east correspondent has more from jerusalem. >> he was released just this morning and he has made several statements. he has alleged he was tortured and that he saw torture. he has been detained since the work erupted. prisons are overcrowded.

someone who is a suspect is accused of sheltering those who carried out the attack should not be released. what the doctor said, he made those algations of torture all rights of prisoners are respected. >> let's go back to hurricane beryl, which made landfall as a category four storm on monday. we can speak to our correspondent will grant. what is the current situation? bring us up to speed. >> things seem really quite bad, both in grenada and in saint

vincent and the grenadines. i have been speaking to a journalist and as he was doing a national broadcast to the country about the latest developments, letting them know what the official advice was, they had to flee their studio because the roof of the adjacent building was going off. roofs have been ripped off lots of different buildings around the island. it takes a little time to get the national excerpt. >> what is forecast from here out? >> in essence, it will continue to make its way through the caribbean. the big fear is that it won't lose much intensity as it moves towards the yucatán peninsula,

toward mexico' coastline because some of these islands are quite small. they won't really sap the strength of the hurricane. there is a lack of other pressures that could weaken the storm. the fear is it has a clear run to the gulf of mexico. we shall see. there are often moments where storms that are particularly powerful can weaken, but most of the communities along the path simply crossing their fingers it won't be as devastating as some of the storms have been in recent memory. >> ok, thanks for that. people are advised to listen out for those warnings and pay heed to them. thank you very much. before we go, some video from london. the u.k. ministry of defense

came loose from their writers. you can keep up-to-date with all of the days news at the day -- at the website, bbc.com/news. and you can find us on your favorite social media platform. i'm caitríona perry, thank you so much for watching world news america and do take care. goodbye. ♪ announcer: funding for presentation of this program is provided by... financial services firm, raymond james. announcer: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. and by judy and peter blum kovler foundation, pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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amna: good evening. geoff bennett is away. the supreme court rules that former president trump is entitled to some immunity complicating the special counsel's case agast