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team's prior claim that he can't be prosecuted even if he assassinated, killed, assassinated his political rivals. >> could a president who ordered s.e.a.l. team six to assassinate a political rival, who was not impeached, would he be subject to criminal prosecution. >> if he were impeached and convicted first -- >> so your answer is no. >> today trump's lawyers argued, quote, a former president enjoys absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for his official acts. they also tried to argue that holding president accountable for his crimes would somehow cripple the office. quote, a denial of criminal immunity would incapacitate every future president with de facto black mail and extorsion. the key to trump's argument is his claim that trying to overturn the election was part

of his official amitriptyline 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 he's made his true view of democracy abundantly clear to anyone who will listen. >> if this election isn't won, i'm not sure that you'll ever have another election in this country. does this make sense? i don't think you're going to have another election in this country if we don't 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 is inherent in the constitution's desiern adding, quote, the

founders viewed protecting the independence of the presidency as well worth the risk that some presidents might evade punishment in marginal cases. this is dangerous and not true to the historical record. january 6th was not a marginal case and the constitution was designed to stop tyrants, not to protect them. joining me now to discuss are two astute former federal prosecutors, christy greenberg and rinato moriarity. i'm going to start with you, christy. i'm galled by the audacity of this argument, but it seems to me that what the court may end up arguing over and what may be at the root of this is what constitutes an official presidential act. is that really what this boils down to, whether or not what the president or former president did on january 6th was part of his official duties? >> yes. based on the way that the

supreme court framed the question presented, whether and to what extent a president enjoys immunity, i think that's exactly what they're going to do. and what donald trump said there is, okay, if you're not going to say that the standard is absolute immunity and you're going to start looking at perhaps the outer perimeter of a president's official acts, that's a fact-based analysis, and that needs to go back to the district court and there needs to be fact finding and delay, delay, delay. so in effect he wins because that's the name of the game here. by the way, the d.c. court of appeals, they really even though that was not the basis, that was not their standard, they observed that if you actually did look at donald trump's expansive definition of official acts, it doesn't cut it under the d.c. circuit's own rulings. it basically said in other opinions in the civil liability context, if you're an office seeker, not an office holder, the actions you're taking as the

office seeker are not official acts. and they specifically said it is doubtful that all the types of conduct that are alleged in this indictment would constitute official acts. so if this does get sent down to the district court, i can't imagine that she is going to find the acts in the indictment are official acts and it will just serve to delay the inevitable. >> i've got to ask you this because, rinato, this is the part that sort of galls me in this. is the trump team arguing that simply investigating the 2020 election was the official amitriptyline act and they had no responsibility for january 6th? what's the part of this where the former president's team is saying that his responsibility as a sitting office holder or office seeker ends and things out of his control should not be held accountable or he should not be held accountable for them? >> it's very tricky. it's hard to see where the official act is here, right?

>> right. >> the indictment alleges none of this is an official act. at this stage of the proceedings before we get to the trial, those allegations are presumed true and jack smith and his team should win at this stage. christie's right that ultimately, depending on where the supreme court comes out, there very well may be a test that basically says for certain types of official acts or in certain contexts perhaps there's some level of immunity and for other acts there aren't, that's a possibility. it's hard to see what the official act is here because the federal government and executive branch has a very limited role in policing elections, okay, first of all. secondly, they also have really they're not part of the role. the role in the certification of january 6th, the role of the presidency is very limited. >> right. >> in fact, the vice president has essentially a ceremonial role as judge lunig counselled

the vice president. it's hard to see what trump's role is here. he's essentially going to have to say that the speeches he gave were part of his -- essentially a ceremonial role as president advocating and making -- it was political speech, but it's very hard to see him actually undertaking what we would understand is an official duty on or around that time. >> here's the other part. you know, i want be to play this -- put this on the full screen. trump's brief argued he took his official actions based on voluminous information available to president trump in his official capacity, that the election was tainted by extensive fraud. christy, here's the thing, even if we were to take this lying multiple times, indicted, twice impeached, even if we were to take him at his word, the investigation into all of those facts took place in the various lawsuits that team trump did throughout the country

investigating fraud, and they were found to have no credibility across the country. so he did investigate. he did engage in lawsuits and those didn't work, and then he attacked the capitol. is that something that i'm -- i'm -- i'm mittsing the connection here or is he claiming these things are somehow separate? >> you're not missing anything. if anything, shame on donald trump's lawyers for putting this kind of an argument that has been a loser in every court that it's been tried in in over 60 different lawsuits into a brief before the supreme court of the united states. i mean, shame on them. at some point you have to have some basis of good faith to believe -- >> right. >> -- that what you are saying is a factual matter is accurate. we have seen this game before, right? we've seen sidney powell get up there and say election fraud, election fraud. where is she now? she pled guilty in georgia.

same with chess borrow. there is no evidence. if there was evidence of election fraud, we would have seen it by now. the fact that this continues to come up is just incredibly disappointing that it's happening at this level. >> you know, i want to play this sound bite from last night, and i want to get your thoughts on the other side, rinato. i think this is also indicative of not only the sort of ridiculous nature of these lawsuits, but how they're not really sitting well with the american public. i want to play this clip. >> former president trump's lawyers said that trump is unable to pay the $464 million bond in his new york civil fraud case. his defense, how is a billionaire supposed to come up with half a billion dollars? come on. do the math. >> trump's lawyers today told the court they can't find anyone to put up the $454 million bond he needs to cover that he owes the state of new york. they said they approached around

30 bond companies. none of them would do business. i wonder why. the hi, we represent donald trump. we were wondering if you could -- hello? >> rinato, nobody buys that he can't pay for this, right? i'm surprised, usually americans like rich people, we're not into electing scrubs that can't pay their bills, but here's the question i'm hit with. in the event that former president trump can't come up with any money, what are the next steps? what are the consequences? is someone going to put a boot on one of his planes? are we going to see fbi agents or city officials taking furniture out of his homes? what are the next steps if trump is not able to make reasonable downpayments on these fraud fees and fines that he has? >> what happens is essentially the new york attorney general's office is going to start essentially collection proceedings. they're going to try to enforce that judgment. that's going to mean, for

example, putting liens on properties he has. trying to essentially obtain his interests in those properties. the reason i say his interests, just like i'm not the only one that owns my home, the bank owns it, whenever -- you know, trump owns various properties, there are lenders who also have an interest. so it's going to be complicated. it's going to take some time. and it's going to be costly for trump, not only in terms of time and legal fees, but it's going to hurt his relationships with these lenders and it's going to be messy because he's got a court appointed receiver and monitor over him as well. so, you know, my take away from trump's inability to pay this $464 million or come up with a bond is either he didn't plan at all for the possibility that he could lose this lawsuit, in which he took the fifth hundreds of times, which seems to be a pretty foreseeable circumstance that he might lose this one, or he does not have the wealth that he has suggested that he's had for quite some time.

i think that's probably the more likely result, the more likely scenario. >> i'm looking forward to seeing a spirit of halloween banner over trump tower if we can get that far. please stay with us. up next, we'll break down a big win for accountability. the first trump aide to go to prison related to january 6th. also, why some critics say trump's new comments about jews are part of a larger dangerous pattern. and a special guest on a lawsuit that aims to take hold for violence for their weapons. all of that when we're back in 60 seconds. this is jason johnson on "the beat." "the beat." new sensodyne clinical white provides 2 shades whiter teeth and 24/7 sensitivity protection. i think it's a great product. it's going to help a lot of patients.

this is what accountability looks like. former trump adviser peter navarro reporting to prison today to start his four-month

sentence. and it's the first contempt of congress imprisonment since the 1950s. navorro refused to comply with a subpoena from the january 6th committee as they sought information on his opinion in subverting the presidential election. >> we had over 100 congressmen and senators on capitol hill ready to implement the sweep. >> do you realize you are describing a coup? >> no. >> he has so much knowledge to share with the journalist but he refuses to share that knowledge in response to a lawful subpoena. >> we are back with our guests, christy greenberg and rinato mariotti. i have to ask you, this is very important when we go into the overall nature of this case. navarro said he had executive privilege even though when he said here on "the beat" explaining how he had been involved in this coup process.

what i have to ask, when we look at the overall sort of universe of people who were involved with the trump campaign, people who were involved in january 6th, is peter navarro a big fish? is peter navarro someone we can say, christy, okay, this is a sign that the sort of trump coup attempt has really been hobbled and it will be a shot across the bow to other people who have been involved? >> i'd like to think so, but who knows. i mean, especially with donald trump's rhetoric as of late. i mean, it seems like every -- every speech he gives it's more and more, you know, against the rule of law and so i would like to think that this -- that this is a deterrent, but given donald trump's own strength, if he's to take office in november, you know, who knows what happens to the rule of law as a result. i mean, looking at this example where, you know, navarro says he is a victim of political persecution, you know, you can

say something over and over again, it doesn't make it true. and he clearly had due process here, he just ignored that process. and so i'd like to think this is an example but, again, a lot of that will depend on who becomes the president. >> rinato, i'm going to play you this sound bite of peter navarro. he compares his prison sentence to dead soldiers on don jr.'s podcast and get your thoughts on the other side. >> men and women of america throughout our history have shed blood, lost their lives for the defense of this country. for me, it's a much smaller sacrifice to be willing to go to prison, as i now have been ordered to do, to defend what is really one of the most important principles of the constitution, which is the constitutional separation of powers.

>> rinato, i guess he wants to -- peter navarro wants to be the modern day g. gordon liddy, i'm proud to go to prison for defending a president. my question is this, when you hear someone basically say, i did it, i'll do it again and i'm proud of it, is a four-month jail sentence going to be enough? because clearly he doesn't seem to believe that anything he did was wrong and there's no reason to think he won't try to do it again in a way that he won't get caught. >> yeah. the incentives are totally off for him. spending the short prison term is basically going to make him a celebrity amongst those people who watch the show on rumble and who go to right wing conferences and buy his merchandise. there's a griptor element to that. mr. navarro keeps making up lies about what he did.

there's no big principle here. no executive privilege just to be clear. the court found donald trump didn't exercise or assert executive privilege. trump could have come forward and tried to suggest he had. he did not do so because there's no actual way in which he had in this case. navarro really had no defense whatsoever and the principle was simply his desire not to comply with a lawful subpoena. there's no principle here. it's purely a way of getting attention and gifting. unfortunately, that is incentivized. >> kristie, i want to play you some sound from former president trump reacting to navarro going to prison today and get your thoughts on the other side. >> peter was treated very unfairly. a great patriot. a great negotiator for our country. he did a tremendous job with respect to china and be trade and they treated him very badly. >> so, again, clearly, kristie, we have -- and this has always sort of amazed me.

i don't know why anybody would be willing to go to jail for donald trump. he doesn't have anyone's back. his entire crew can go down. every corner boy, every person up and down the ladder. he does not care as long as he is fine, but when you see something like that, when you see the former president, you know, basically read off the cue card, yes, i feel really bad he's going to jail, is that something that legally is going to matter down the road? is the fact that he says, well, i think he's a bad guy, i don't connect him, is that something other witnesses or prosecutors can say this, what i was doing is part of the job or is it just another example of trump not caring about those going down for defending him in his attempt to take over the country? >> so i think a lot of donald trump's words here and assurances that he will take care, look at the way he's talking about those who have been convicted of felonies in connection with january 6th. he's now talking about them as hostages. the rhetoric is that, you know,

if he -- if he's able to, you know, become president, that, you know, he's going to pardon these people. i mean, that seems to be the upshot of his comments. it seems as though he still has a co-defendant -- two co-defendants in florida. >> right. >> who knows what discussions have been had among their lawyers, but at least as of now it appears they're remaining loyal. those who have -- even manafort who was convicted of bank fraud and wire fraud is somebody who's now being brought back into the fold because he didn't flip entirely. he wasn't with the government. so, you know, if you show loyalty to donald trump, donald trump at least as of now still has the potential for great power and so while that potential still exists, you're going to see, i think, people continuing to try to do favor with him. if that means breaking the law, then so be it. there needs to be consequences

to make sure that those individuals who do break the law, you know, feel the pain of that. the. >> christi greenberg and rinato mariotti, thank you for joining us this evening on "the beat." later in the show, as trump demonizes immigrants, mexico comes after the u.s. and trump ignites new accusations of anti-semitism. we are here to discuss when we come back on "the beat." ♪♪ moving piles of earth, just by moving a lever. ♪♪ towing up to 4,000 lbs with a machine that weighs less than half that. cutting grass, clearing the way, and perfecting every inch of your land. ♪♪ we could keep trying to put it into words. ♪♪ but nothing compares to experiencing it for yourself. ♪♪

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charlottesville. trump said hitler, quote, did some good things. for its part the trump campaign is actually defending the comments saying trump was, quote, right. it's an absurd and offensive response. he's defending white supremacists, proud boys and the january 6th terrorists. indeed, today the a.p. noting trump has made the insurrection a corner stone of his campaign. joining me now to discuss is alencia johnson and ruth benguya, nyu professor of history. and author of "strongmen, musso linnie to the president." ruth, this is something where i don't think we could ever spend enough time discussing how

problematic the language and policies of trump really are, the level of bigotry, the level of anti-semitism, the level of islamophobia. i want to put this quote up on full screen. quote, i think any jewish people that vote for a democrat, i think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty. just break down for us not only how offensive and insulting that particulars statement is but also why it is problematic when linked to the other sort of autocratic and fascist leanings from trump. >> well, when he says any jews who vote democrat they're showing a great disloyalty, the disloyalty he most cares about is disloyalty to himself because donald trump only cares about

himself really, but the disloyalty is a trigger thing designed to be resonating with anti-semites because it's a very old idea that jews are not really loyal to the countries they're in because they're also loyal to israel. they have a divided loyalty. donald trump has made these comments before. there's a whole history. he's been anti-semetic in every way you can be anti-semetic. i was following his early actions in 2017 very closely. you know there was -- right after he came in as president there was a holocaust remembrance day. so his administration with stephen miller in it, who is jewish origin but total antisemite fascist, they released a statement that didn't mention jews. they released a holocaust

statement that didn't mention jews. when asked about it ryans priebus said everybody's suffering matters. so this kind of unwillingness to give, you know, jews their place in the holocaust. soon after that was the infamous charlottesville where nazis are good people too. >> i want to give you a bad faith argument that i have seen on line but i think it's important to make the distinction. what you are hearing from right wing accolites and bad faith actors is, well, you know what trump said about jewish people is no different than you aren't black if you voted for donald trump instead of him. explain the difference. explain to the audience how there is a very distinct difference and history and joe biden simply saying something that was foolish during a radio

interview. >> yeah, look, what joe biden said was a slip up on a radio interview but it doesn't -- it pales in comparison to the history of donald trump. the facts are in the data. anti-semitism has risen since donald trump took office. i believe within one year, between 2018 and 2019 it rose by 12 percent pirs. we saw attacks on synagogues. we saw neonazis protesting in streets and ruth mentioned he was calling them very fine people. the crux of the proud boys movement is anti-semitism. he fully embraced kanye west's rhetoric around jewish people. he has fully embraced all of the center of white supremacy. he's also even praised adolph hitler. so that argument is null and void. it is not even a starting point

because of how egregious donald trump is and has made this country, and world given the influence the united states has on the global -- on our global culture, has made it a more dangerous place for jewish people because of his not only rhetoric but his embracing of anti-semitic people in the country. >> ruth, you know, one of the things that's also concerning, and i thought about this year ago with donald trump, you had late night comedians say it was very difficult to make fun much a man who had no shame. he was shameless. he didn't care about being caught with prostitutes and lying. it feels like we're facing a similar situation. this guy is responsible for january 6th. donald trump says, heck yeah, i was, give me money, right? how do you run against a candidate who essentially embraces being a law breaker in

an attempt to violently overthrow the country. it's difficult to embrace someone who embraces their terrible attributes and 36, 38% of the country thinks it's great. >> yeah, this is a huge problem. from the very start, from his january 2016 comment that he would stand on fifth avenue and shoot someone and not lose any followers, he was telling us that he is, you know -- he has personal capacity for violence and that he would be loved because of the violence. so fast forward to what happens with these autocrats, they do lawless things, they attract lawless people and they reward people for being lawless. you have people -- this is mirrored in the remaking much the gop that is a party

dependent on lying, corruption, people who participate in january 6th are heroes. the lawless come forward. what can we do? is that what i do is i call this out and talk about outcomes. what does it mean for american productivity, american prestige that basically you have a party of criminals, and more and more people, you know, are coming into the party who are rewarded for being lawless. that's not good for business. that's not good for america's standing in the world. so that's what you can do as part of upholding the rule of law to link it to broader things americans do care about in their everyday lives. >> alencia, i want to play a match-up from former president trump's rally last weekend. >> if i don't get elected it's going to be a bloodbath.

they're not people. they're bad. they're animals. if this isn't won, i'm not sure you'll have another election in this country. >> alencia, it's an open call for violence. i want people to understand. i think ruth makes a very good point. this isn't just his political enemies because this is constantly expanding with trump, right? it's any democrat, any lawyer who stood against him, anyone in the press who he deems to be problematic. break down how this open lawlessness, it's open season on people you don't like has an impact on regular people, regular people's lives who are sitting there deciding do i want to vote one way or the other? how does that rhetoric endanger them? >> when i think of january 6th, he was fueling the flames. it was his rhetoric that caused january 6th.

and under a trump administration, all of those people would get away with this. when he says these people, we know who he's talking about. he's talking about the people who are in opposition to him who tend to overwhelmingly be people of color, to be young people, to be women, to be a lot of americans who see him as an existential crisis. he is telling his base, the maga republican base, that unfortunately the republican party he's conceding to, this maga base that is full of white supremacists, that it is open season for people who do not look like them and do not sound like them. that is very scary for me as a black woman, as a person with family in the south, as family members in churches. i think of the black people who go to places of worship and fear for their lives, immigrants who have feared for their lives because of attacks that have been fueled by donald trump. jewish people populations, muslim communities.

i can go on and often and on but we're on live television and i don't have enough time. these are the people, unfortunately, the majority of americans that trump is telling his extremely dangerous base that this is open season. the election is over if he doesn't win. if he does win, elections will be over and democracy would crumble. >> you may think he's only talking about his set list of enemies, but i promise you everything from pizza joints to grocery stores to shopping malls have been targeted by his followers. thank you all for joining us. thank you, both. a lawmaker in arizona shares her harrowing personal story about abortion highlighting the stakes in this incredibly charged debate. first, what maga gets wrong about guns and immigration. more on that when we come back. it's jason johnson on "the beat." at." or more - can be overwhelming. so, ask your doctor about botox®. botox® prevents headaches in adults with chronic migraine

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trump's anti-immigration rhetoric has been a key part of his political movement especially when it comes to mexico and the southern border. >> when mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. they're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists and some i assume are good people. >> they want open borders. they don't want this. they want criminals to come in. they want human traffickers. >> these are bad. these are animals.

>> trump's language has always been racist and misguided, but i want to clarify, mexico does have a serious violence issue. for the sixth year running, mention i tow surpassed 30,000 murders in 2023. according to mexican authorities, more than 200,000 people have been killed by guns since 2010. that's not the full story. u.s. data shows 70% of the guns recovered by mexican authorities can be traced back to the united states. that robust black market due in large part to the fact there's only one gun store in all of mexico, one in the whole country, and it's on a military base. the country is issuing fewer than 50 gun permits a year. now mexico is taking an aggressive action to stop the flow of guns from the united states suing u.s. gun makers for

$10 billion accusing them of reckless business practices that supply a, quote, torrent of illegal firearms to violent drug cartels. this bombshell suit recently green lit by a u.s. appeals court. it could have big implications not only for mexico but gun laws in the united states. joining me is jonathan lowey. founder and president of global access to gun violence. thank you for joining us this evening. jonathan, this was so key. this was so key because the narrative in the united states, certainly on the right, is always, oh, united states is being flooded by people, and yet the reality is our guns are flooding and damaging mexico. just talk a little bit about the fact that american guns and the negative impact that they have had on stability, economics and

human rights issues in mexico. >> that's exactly right. it's difficult for criminals to get guns in mexico. they have traffickers to the u.s. and buy multiple assault weapons. they should know they're traffickers. that makes mess i could he about the third highest gun death rate in the world and also thrives the migration coming across the border and it fuels of fentanyl trafficking kill so many in the u.s. it's a u.s. problem and a mexican problem as a result of u.s. gun access. >> i want to highlight that because as you said, you know, with the number of guns that the united states is sending to mexico, they're being smuggled into mexico, that is a large catalyst for what is happening

at the border. if the united states did a better job of controlling our gun smuggling, we wouldn't have these kinds of border issues. i want to share this on the screen. larry keane, the senior vice president and general counsel of the national shooting sports founl days. he said, quote, mexico should spend its time enforcing its own laws and bring mexican criminals to justice in mexican courtrooms instead of scapegoating the fooifrm industry. isn't the mexican government suing america to handle our own gun problem an example and he's coming up with excuses for the lack of control and responsibility of gun manufacturers in our country? >> that's exactly right. of course, he's not defending the industry, he's just pointing the finger somewhere else. and the fact is if cartels were

not armed with military weapons they get from u.s. trafficking, it would be much, much easier to stop them. that would reduce violence and be crime on both sides of the border. >> what we're looking at now, there's a list of gun companies being sued. beretta, barrett firearms manufacturing. colt's manufacturing, glock, smith and wesson. where is the current state of this case? what would a successful result be for you and your organization and for the mexican government? >> well, we just won a big victory in the first circuit court of appeals that held that mexico's case could go forward. the defendants are trying to seek review, going to seek review to the supreme court. i personally don't think the supreme court is going to take this case. i think we're going to be back

down in trial court proving this case. if we're successful, i think we will be, that will have courts make sure that the manufacturers and dealers sell guns in a responsible, safe way which will reduce gun trafficking and it would also bring money, profits that the industry has made, to the government of mexico so they can protect their people and build their country. >> jonathan lowy, thank you so much for the work you're doing. i think this is an incredibly important story. we're definitely going to follow up. >> thank you. up next, abortion on the ballot as gop lawmakers get pushback over 15-week bans. more on that. you're with jason johnson on "the beat." where you grew a dream into a reality. the all new godaddy airo. put your business online in minutes with the power of ai.

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