elliot williams, your thoughts on this with what was really interesting was when he said the presidentn't look confused, he was just thunderstruck by the lies that donald trump was making. and your point and responses. let's tell the president's or looked from the moment he walked out there on stage and like you said, this is a very tough day to be a surrogate for the president and the simple factors they are coming up with virtually three excuse in many respects for performance that was by any historical standard, disastrous for a candidate. >> well, and it's also the case that this idea that they should put the president out there more so that he can prove to the american people that he has what it takes. i've heard that over and over and over again for literally years from people close to the white house. and i think having seen the debate, people have a pretty good idea why that hasn't happened. because he has good moments and bad moments, good days and bad days. and you don't know which joe biden is going to come out in any particular circumstance. so they can't necessarily don't

all elliot williams big picture here. this has really up ended. of the prosecutions of donald trump in a variety of arenas. and as i was thinking through what happened, as we recovering this together on this site yesterday that this really does seem like when we look back, when the history books are written, if donald trump wins in november, this is the week anyone i think it is the week that if that's the case, certainly it was such a profound week for donald trump as a candidate and also as a former president. i also think it is a profound week for the supreme court and going back to bush versus gore, i mean, there's been significant in cases throughout american history, but, but going back to bush versus gore the two most, i guess, profound political cases we're in american history been decided on pretty strict partisan breakdowns, whether that's good or bad, i'm not weighing in on it. that's just where the supreme court is and it ought not be a surprise hi, as the anybody that this institution's public standing is failing and this is why peopl

elliot williams. yeah yeah. >> well, look, he's he's onto something. he's onto something in so far as it's really troubling that a candidate is led by someone who got into law school partly on the basis of gender and a number of characteristics about them that bumped their chance at a await. that's j.d. vance. i'm sorry, j.d vance, by virtue of being from a diverse part of the country first-generation college student. and right now male all would necessarily have helped his chances of getting it. that's diversity and dei, when you use the term consideration of people's backgrounds in their advancement. and so this whole debate is sort of nonsense. it's a slur, it's a buzzword. he knew exactly what he was doing there yeah, it's a bullhorn dog. was born i mean, it's offensive and again, i think we're going to see is an effort to trial on the part of the gop to draw democrats into this kind of argument and this sort of let's talk about culture wars and let's talk about racism instead of the issues they would rather see us defending them and having a conve

it's not held elliot williams will see what the judge decides on friday. thank you for breaking all that down. let's see what it means for rudy giuliani before we go tonight, i do want to take a moment though, to say thank you to all of you. tonight marks one year and one of you anniversary of the source here at cnn in this last year, this role has taken me all over the globe from israel as the world was still reeling from the terror of the october 7 attack to ukraine on the second anniversary of russia's invasion it's also taken me all over our country right here at home, whether that's to florida to bring you an exclusive interview with a key witness in donald trump's classified documents case or in georgia were recovered that historic moment when we saw the first mug shot of a former president. even when the former president was convicted for the first time in his home state of new york, not too long ago. the guest on this show have brought you inside perspective that really no one else can just leaves all this carnage in his wake. trump's election to a

cnn legal analyst carrie cordero, elliot williams, and elie honig, along with former fbi director and cnn analyst andrew mccabe and former attorney bill brennan is with us and we will get you in one second. bill. i just want to start off with the big picture here. i read one quote and i'm going to read one more from the chief justice kind of summarizing this length the his opinion and of course, there are concurring the dissents will get to in a second. under are constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of presidential power and titles, a former president to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority. 40 and he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. there is no immunity for unofficial acts. so that sums it up now i don't want to start with you. i don't excuse me. elie, i want to start with you. i don't want to get into the specifics quite yet about the january 6 case because i want to do that in a minute. but because this is precedent setting and

jeff mason, white house correspondent for reuters, former federal prosecutor, cnn legal analyst elliotliams, former state department official hillary clinton, adviser fully brightness, and matt gorman, former senior adviser to tim scott's presidential campaign. welcome to all of you at felipe. i just want to put this question to you as someone who's inside one of these presidential campaigns, as you know, you guys went into the 2016 election, not expecting to lose to donald trump right now, there seems to be an expectation among many democrats here in washington. but joe biden is going to lose to donald trump. do you think that's what's going to happen if the election were tomorrow? yes. but thank god, tomorrow is not election day. and there are 125 ish days where joe biden can really put his best foot forward, hopefully put what happened behind us, not in a it was just a bad night there was a blip kind of way. but in a ok, let's keep it in context. let's keep it in context of what it was and what wasn't in context of what donald trump suffers and what he doesn't and his medical histor

our panelists here, alex thompson, national political correspondent for axios, elliot williams, cnn legal analysts, former deputy assistant attorney general, during the obama administration. kate bedingfield, former white house communications director for president biden, and jonah goal the editor in chief of the dispatch. thank you all for being here on this momentous day. i'm kate, i want to hear your reflections in a second, but alex, i just want to start with you on the reporting how we got here, how the president got here, because this was a very long, very long time coming yeah. >> i mean and while a lot of people are praising his decision today, let's be clear, this was not something that joe biden wanted to do. this was a reluctant seating of power that happened because that the fact that joe biden decided to do that debate early, the fact that whether or not you believe the reasons of travel schedule was the reason for the bad performance or something else that basically led to a panic and the party that nancy pelosi and other democratic leaders basically decided that this is not

elliot williams, former federal prosecutor. we have republican strategist, doug heye, cnn, political commentator alyssa farah griffin, former secret service agent, jonathan wackrow, and the former fbi debt pd director andrew mccabe, very grateful to all of you for joining us in the historic aftermath of this horrible event. andy mccabe, i'd like to start with you to just respond to what we heard from that interview that the bbc had where there was a person who saw apparently saw the shooter and tried to say and do something thing about this. i mean, what did you hear there and what does it say to you about what what got missed well, i mean, first of all, this is the witness that you want, right? >> if you're an investigator, there will be hundreds of rally attendees that'll be interviewed what you're looking for in those hundreds of interviews is a person like this who direct eyewitness account of the moments leading up to the attack. so it's amazing to degrade interview and i'm sure that guy is probably been identified and tal

now, we have full coverage of this here on a special edition of cnn this morning with elliot williams. andrew mccabe, karen finney, democratic strategist matt gorman, a republican strategist. i'm very grateful to all of you for being here. andy mccabe, i'd like to start with you on what we saw and quite frankly, how this was possible well, that's a great question, kasie, and it's one that will be echoing around the halls of many government agencies that first of course, being the secret service so just to kind of separate the investigative horsepower that's working right now on the fbi side and what they're close relationship with the pennsylvania state police, they are trying to disassemble this attack yesterday and particularly focusing on the shooter himself to understand everything about that person's life to understand everything that took place at the scene yesterday and perfect chronological order where he came from, how he moved to the position he ultimately took feathering into that understanding all of the eyewitness testimony that we have from multiple places, very complica