president! mr. president! mr. president! mr. president!or months, you would respond with the words watch me. many people have been watching and they have expressed concerns about your age. >> that is your judgment. that is not your -- that is not the judgment of the press. >> reporter: they say that you are too old. mr. president, in december he told me you believe there are many other democrats who could defeat donald trump so why does it have to be you now? >> i am the most qualified person in the united states to be president. >> reporter: why are you refusing the names of our leaders? >> i did not share classified information. i did not share with my ghostwriter. i did not say that. i did not say that. >> reporter: mr. president? >> let me answer your question. the fact of the matter is what i did not want repeated i did not read it to him. i had written a long memorandum to president obama why we should not be in afghanistan. multiple pages. and so what i was referring to, isa classified. i should have said it should be private becaus

president trump: worst president in the history of the united states. he's horrible to the black community. like it or not. and check out his record in the 1990's. check out his record in the 1990's. >> economic for us. president trump: opportunity. best job numbers ever. opportunity -- colleges and universities. got the whole thing down. one picture. [indiscernible] president trump: thank you very much -- president trump: thank you very much. that was really nice. a lot of people don't want to -- come over here. >> thank you so much. president trump: thank you, everybody. >> thank you. [applause] president trump: it's always nice we are setting records. and we are doing well. we don't need with the democrats. they pass it around to everybody. meaning politicians. we don't do that. hillary had more than twice the money we had. and how did that race turn out? i'm not 14u7bd% sure. we don't need the same. we could get as much. we are doing very well. we broke the all time record the "nightlights," $52 million. more importantly we take in more than everybo

acting as president and the president acting as candidate? yes, we do. and we don't dispute essentially the place. again, discussion of that okay. that has to be done by objective determinations, not by looking at what was the purpose of what you did this that's the most important point that did you in this litigation then challenged the appointment of special counsel, not directly. >> we have done so in the southern district of florida case, and we totally agree with the provided by attorney general. nice an general, casey and& it points to a very important issue here because one of their arguments is a course that we shut this presumption of regularity that runs into the reality that we have here. an extraordinary prosecutorial power being accessed by someone who has never nominated by the president or more confirmed by the senate at any time so we agree with that position. we hadn't raised it yet in this case when this case went up on appeal justice alito when you say that the official acts should be expunged from the indictment that in it

senate president pro tem, patty murray, will preside. as i have said repeatedly, we want to address this issue as expeditiously as possible. impeachment should never be used to settle a policy agreement -- policy disagreement. let me say that again. impeachment should never be used to settle a policy disagreement. talk about awful precedence. this would set an awful precedent for congress. every time there's a policy agreement in the house, they send it over here to tie the senate in knots to do an impeachment trial? that's absurd. that's an abuse of the process. that is more chaos. nevertheless, when the house is ready to send us the a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from kansas. mr. marshall: mr. president, on february 2, 2021, dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas took an oath that haul of us in the chamber have taken, an oath that many of us have taken that have served in the military, an oath to support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic. yet here we are t

was he running for president because he is barred from being president.nation became very clear that this was something he did for trump who he called and mentor. it also became clear that this was really between him and michael cohen. when he asked trump about it and the reimbursement he said i don't know anything about that. none of that makes a good case if anything let alone a criminal case. >> andy this was the former president also on his remarks a few moments ago. he said this about the case, listen... >> today was breathtaking in this room you saw what went on it was breathtaking. amazing testimony. this is a trial that should have never happened and a case that should have never been filed and it was really an incredible day. open your eyes, we can't let this continue to happen to our country. >> sandra: open your eyes he said. andy, the case should never have been filed all ask you a question i asked the ladies of moment ago is becoming more and more apparent to the american public that that is indeed the case? >> it may be sandra but, you know,

he also gave a brief summary of president biden's phone call with chinese president xi jinping. white house press secretary karine jean-pierre also took questions about the administration's decision to host a scaled-down event with muslim community members to mark ramadan. this is one hour. >> good afternoon everybody. no bunny today. no bunny. just me, the admiral, and the team. ok. so, yesterday, the florida supreme court upheld the state's dangerous abortion ban, putting desperately needed medical care further out of reach for millions of women. what's worse, this ruling is also expected to trigger governor desantis's even more extreme ban that would prevent women from accessing care before many even know they are pregnant. we will continue to stand with the vast majority of americans support a woman's right to choose. president biden and vice president harris will continue to work to protect reproductive freedom and call on congress to pass a law restoring the protections of roe v. wade. second, starting this week, the white house will push congressional republicans to exten

here's a young president who's a young president. nixon, before he was president, basically saying after he lost the gubernatorial race that he was going be out of politics. well, that didn't stay very long. so even people who are fictionally accused of crimes can survive them, if all watch the west wing. i've talked this a little bit here and there, but do you remember when president bartlet was accused of a scandal? right. he basically misled the american people that he had a disease, he had mms and didn't disclose it. so even fictional presidents can find a way around this. and so there is like a whole story where basically there's a concern the president going to get impeached for this. certainly took some political lumps, but the question remains how presidents survive a scandal. we've talked in the past actually, you see here in the background, president obama wearing the tan suit right. this became kind of like a controversy not a scandal because it doesn't qualify, but obviously political friction in some is magnified and tha

so that is what the president and the vice president is going to be doing later today. reporter: why not the community leaders in >> the community leaders expressed the preference of doing a meeting, a working group meeting, if you will. they wanted to make sure that there was an opportunity to discuss the issue at hand. they thought it would be important to do that. and so we -- we did that. we listened. we heard and we adjusted the format to be responsive and so that we can get feedback from them. and that is request. this is actually a request from members of the community. this is what they wanted. and we understand that. they wanted to -- they want the president, the vice president and senior administration officials obviously national security folks as well who will be joining the meeting to hear directly from them. so this is going to be seen as a work, working group meeting. and we are the president, the vice president, we are looking forward to having that -- that opportunity. ok. reporter: thanks, jean. -- on friday we're going to get job figures and it has sh

president. i yield the floor.i'd like now y friend and coeditor franke now y scutaro franks, an attorney and the author of president grant reconsidered and the supreme court's retreat from reconstruction. he's the president of the grant monument association, which is dedicated to the preservation of grant's tomb, which you can see behind me here. he served previously as the counsel for the constitu ation for the senate judiciary committee and as a special counsel to the house, select investigative panel. he now serves as vice president and senior counsel of j.c. and franks, thank so much for being with us tonight. thank you, chris. it's so good to be with you. thank you. white house historical association for hosting us tonight and for all of you who are joining us. before we start, why don't i give chris an introduction, although already gotten a partial introduction. he is really one of the most talented and vivid describe of the civil war currently lecturing. he is a ph.d. and editor shape an

biden and former president trump. we have a document here that lays some of that out. you answer some questions on this already. it seemed to be highly relevant in your analysis that president biden cooperated and i want to walk through a couple of those points. one is that he turned in classified documents to the national archives and the department of justice upon request. is that fair? >> that was a factor that we considered. >> he cooperated with your investigation? >> yes. >> he consented to the search of multiple locations including his house? >> yes. >> he set for a voluntary interview? >> yes. >> that was five hours over two days? >> yes. >> he turned over and allowed investigators to review notebooks he believed to be his personal property? >> correct. >> with respect to the comparison of former president trump and i believe this is on page 11, that is still in your executive summary, and i will just read part of this to you. unlike the evidence from mr. biden the allegations set forth in the indictment of pr

of presidencies. so let's take harry truman's presidency as an. truman's presidency, one of the most corrupt in the 20th century. banner continued that the real story of that presidency consisted of policy issues such as the berlin airlift and the marshall plan and quote if you try to write history of the truman administration on the grounds of the misconduct of, the white house, then you're not really writing the history of the truman administration. at one point, a strong ideological skew among historian as against ronald reagan almost did him in. amid the disclosure of the iran-contra affair in 1988 american heritage ran an article by irwin friedman that put reagan in the same category as grant harding and nixon, complete with a cartoon one showing the four presidents falling into a hellish fiery pit around the same time, in his private correspondence, see woodward, despite doing his part during the 1950s to perpetuate the corruption narrative. describe the traditional narrative about the gilded ag

running for president.chael cohen, a convicted perjurer, gets to say whatever he wants? that's ridiculous. and here's the other thing i noticed this week too. when you look at what happened at the supreme court, and it looked like the argument as went very well for our side. when you look at what happened there, everyone's saying, oh, this is probably going to get sent back to a lower court and they're going to sort through the facts and there there won't be a trial before the election. all the mainstream media's talking about, oh, we're not going to have a trial before the election. why the heck does that matter? i thought you were focused on getting the to the truth. it's all political for these folks. and here's the other thing, maria. bragg is -- the crime he's trying to get to is, oh, president trump was involved in a conspiracy to obstruct the 2020 -- 2016 election. and then jack smith is saying president trump was involved in a conspiracy if to interfere with the 2020 election. seems to me the truth

president biden was critical of president trump's insistence on tariffs. there is a lot of evidence that supports that. as president, president biden has maintained those tariffs and build on top of them to demonstrate his willingness to take on fair practices. host: let's look at a portion of what president biden in pittsburgh on wednesday. [video clip] pres. biden: together these are strategic and targeted actions that protect, can workers and ensure fair competition. my predecessor and maga republicans went across the board tariffs from all countries. it is estimated it would cost dimmick and family an average of $1500 a year if they succeeded in doing that. trump doesn't get it. i have heard many of my democratic fans -- france say china is on the rise in america's phone kind. i have been the only one disagreed with that. i have believed we have got it wrong, merck is rising. we have the best economy in the world. our gdp is up, after deficit is down. we are standing up against china's government on economic is. host: he says that his actions were targ

, do you differentiate between the president acting as president and the president acting as candidate? >> yes, we do, and we don't dispute essentially the blassingame discussion of that. that has to be done by objective determinations, not by looking at what was the purpose of what you did. and that's the most important point. >> did you in this litigation challenge the appointment of special counsel in. >> not directly. we have done so in the southern district of florida case and we totally agree with the analysis provided by attorney general mees and attorney general casey and it points to a very important issue here because one of their arguments is of course that, you know, we should have this presumption of regular laity. that runs into the reality that we have here an extraordinary prosecutorial power being exercised by someone who has never nominated by the president or confirmed by the senate at any time, so we agree with that position. we hadn't raised it yet in this case when this case went up on appeal. >> analysis alito. >> when you say that the official acts should be exp

thank you, madam president. mr. marshall: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from kansas. mr. marshall: thank you, madam president. as israel is under attack from iran, we stand with israel and its people, and the united states will do everything we can to support israel's defense against iran. now, i've said similar things to that, but that's actually a quote from the democrat senate majority leader chuck schumer. as israel's under attack from iran, we will do everything we can to support israel's defense against iran. the majority leader said basically the same thing several months ago on the nation's mall when he said he wouldn't sleep until we help the people of israel. it's been almost 200 days since iran withian- iranian-backed hamas leaders killed innocent people. i called for aid to our ally israel with no strings apatched four times -- attached four times. sadly democrats blocked our efforts. every time we come to the floor to have this debate, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle stood on this floor and lect

, former president trump. he spoke today about how the supreme court hearing was a game changer. watch this. >> the u.s. supreme court had a monumental hearing on immunity, presidential immunity and i hope it was clear that a president, most of you could say a ceremonial dozen of the south the founders had in mind. >> what is your reaction to that? former president trump got an outpouring of support from new york city construction workers. what you think of what he just said? >> in my opinion, i think the most extraordinary thing today was some of the justices seemed to take it as a given that the department of justice prosecutors and grand juries could be trusted to be politically neutral when it comes to prosecuting someone like a former president of the united states. i think she just look around the country here in atlanta, flo florida, new york and d.c., i don't see why any of the justices of the supreme court should be comfortable that you got neutral prosecutors. certainly the new york case shows certai

president. the presiding officer: the senator from maryland, i move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 478, and i ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote the clerk: ms. baldwin, mr. booker, mr. braun. mr. brown. mr. budd, ms. butler. mrs. capito, mr. mr. carper. mr. casey. mr. cassidy. ms. collins. mr. coons. mr. cornyn. ms. cortez masto. mr. cotton. mr. cramer. mr. crapo. mr. cruz. mr. daines. ms. duckworth. mr. durbin. ms. ernst. mr. fetterman. mrs. fischer. mrs. gillibrand. mr. graham. mr. grassley. mr. hagerty. ms. hassan. mr. hawley. mr. heinrich. mr. hickenlooper. ms. hirono. mr. hoeven. mrs. hyde-smith. mr. johnson. mr. kaine. mr. kelly. mr. kennedy. mr. king. ms. klobuchar. mr. lankford. mr. lee. mr. lujan. ms. lummis. mr. manchin. mr. markey. mr. marshall. mr. mcconnell. mr. menendez. mr. merkley. mr. moran. mr. mullin. ms. murkowski. mr. murphy. mrs. murray. mr. osso

the president is out. there are categories of statutes where the president is in. for example, the grassroots lobbying statute. office of legal counsel wrote an opinion about that. it said for the president or other public officials to go into the world and promote their programs, that can't be what congress intended to prohibit. what it did intend to prohibit is using federal funds to gin up a campaign that was top down. they said the president and officials who carry out the president's mandates are subject to that statute. that's a more nuanced one. the third example is the statute that would permit prosecution for contempt of congress. the office of legal counsel concluded that a good faith assertion of executive privilege as a reason for not providing information to congress would preclude prosecution because congress cannot be deemed to have altered the separation of powers in such a manner. i have think olc probably would have gone on to say if congress tried to do it, it would be deemed unconstitutional. again, it was a statute that did not specifically nam

the great presidents. i think we all wish they still did that today. okay. washington one thing that struck me reading your book was i have sort of two images of of washington. one is an incredibly good looking sort of studly guy in a uniform on a big white horse who's the man and yet incredibly humble i mean, just sort of eerily humble. can you reconcile this and talk to us about why that was? well, one of the great traits that george washington had was that he was self-aware. he knew his strengths were he knew his weaknesses were he knew that he was not a great public in large part because he had trouble talking. he had a grasp the breathy voice that from a childhood respiratory illness. and famously he very few teeth. in fact, by the time he was president, i think he only had one tooth in his head. so he had these unwieldy dentures in his mouth, made it very to speak. so at no, was he a great public speaker? but he had everything else and the main thing in that regard was he had command presence. he was

man that's president, he's a terrible person, a terrible president. a manchurian candidate. because he gets money from everybody. he's a manchurian candidate. i predict that biden is going to be gone. in six months, that's all we have. six months is a long time because the damage he can do in six months -- he's done more damage than the 10 worst presidents in the history of our country. there has never been anybody that's damaged our country like crooked joe biden. i predict november 5 the most important day in the history of our country. and it's going to be christian visibility day. christian visibility day. christians are going to come out and they are going to vote like never before. thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2024] >> wle campaigning in atlanta, former psident trump administrationp stopped by a chick fillet to make remarks and answer voter questions. including several regarding his stance on abortion.

, the undemocratically elected president, the self-elected president, what can we say about putin in this context, when a person has been in office for more than 20 years, and the last cadences that we are observing, i have since already managed to give birth to two children, who, if the war continues, will go to serve in a few years, and... i don't see an alternative in the possibility, the possibility for someone to participate in the elections, firstly, everyone is dead, who could win something, and secondly, it is totalitarian country, it's either you or no one, so it's definitely not a democratically elected president, so-called president, i think we probably all need to unite in the journalistic world to call it that, but we also consider russia a country ... at the moment, which does not pretend to correlate any correlations related to the rule of law, democratically elected institutions, politicians, and thought, and all those processes that accompany the rule of law and democracy in any country of the democratic world, therefore for me, sergey, no, i will be more categorical

i am leaning towards voting for president biden and vice president harris. look, this guy that you are interviewing now, yes -- host: yes, we are listening. you said about this book? caller: i have seen -- host: tom, i am sorry, you are breaking up. we can't hear you. we will go to ohio. gus, independent. caller: i would like to ask charlie here, when he did those polls on kamala harris, do you ask their party affiliation or do you try to poll 50/50? because that's number one. number two is why don't you write a book about marjorie taylor greene? that would be an interesting book, you know? thank you. guest: that's a good idea. maybe i will call her office and see if we can get started. but as far as polling goes, i think most pollsters try to get a representative slice of the country, half democrat, half republican and try to weigh it in a way that makes sense professionally. there are a number of different polls that have pointed her out as the most unpopular vice president in modern history. more unpopular than dick cheney, mike pence, al gore, even dan q

could president george w. bush have been sent to prison for obstructing an official proceeding or allegedly lying to congress to induce war in iraq? could president obama be charged with murder for killing u.s. citizens abroad by drone strike? could president biden someday be charged with unlawfully inducing immigrants to enter the country illegally for his border policy. the answer to all these questions is no. prosecuting the president for official acts is an innovation with no foothold in history or tradition and incompatible with our constitutional structure. the original meaning of the executive vesting clause, the framers understanding and unbroken historical tradition spanning 200 years and policy considerations rooted in the separation of powers all counsel against it. i welcome the courts questions. >> mr. sauer, to your last point koba could you be more precise? -- your point. could you be more precise? >> it's rooted in the vesting clause. >> how does that happen? >> the source of it is that the exe

i have written books about presidents and underrated president was president grant who really held thelity to bring people together in really tumultuous times. finally brian says how do you get people for your "common ground" segment every week? it seems we only hear partisan views. more people should see people work across the aisle. we try to get more and more people. i just talked to bipartisan senate press secretaries the other day on capitol hill trying to get their bosses to come on the show and a lot of them said they would. that's always a good thing. tomorrow on "special report," judges here arguments over the constitutionality over the texas law to allow states arrest illegal immigrants cross the border from mexico. we will bring you that. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it fo

him down, i'm seeing the president may call vice president harris the president tonight, i think he'sng to show up late because he typically shows up 20 minutes to an hour late. i think when he's on stage he might do that biden shovel we'll see him do and at the end of whatever he's going to say, he might apologize for speaking too long and then he will continue to speak longer. what you think? >> you guys have pretty high hopes for this speech, yes? i think this is solid analysis. i'm surprised no one suggested him going the wrong way on the way to the podium. >> a very strong possibility. i am way impressed you are out there, i've never seen you look -- really sharp. i'm really impressed. you click, tie and you are there. [laughter] >> good for you. i will not have you insult my stylist or his seeing eye dog. i don't have to take this but continue. >> i do hope you have sparkle on somewhere, i do miss the sequence, i'm missing you wearing sequence here and there. >> love it. later, stay tuned. you got to stay tuned for that. >> people can tuning, jimmy failla limp from the white hou

by our own president. and i remember on the night of 9/11, president bush when he spoke to the nation from the oval office, he said the terrorists can shake the foundations of our biggest building, but they cannot shake the foundations of our democracy. and i believed strongly that the threat we face today is one that does threaten the foundations. and i think that it is important to remember how grave that is. i want to say a couple things. my mom and dad are watching, so i want to say hello to my mom and my dad. and -- bush and her sister, trisha, are in the audience. i want to say hello to them as well. and sitting close to them, my husband, bill, my daughter, elizabeth, both of whom work on the select committee. very grateful for them. john: we want to talk about what it is like to be married to the margaret thatcher of yellowstone. if we can do that. i worked on that one. rep. cheney: that is not a great mental image. john: you are going to use that in iowa someday. you're going to be saying i am the

president. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from kansas. mr. marshall: mr. president, on february 2, 2021, dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas took an oath that haul of us in the chamber have taken, an oath that many of us have taken that have served in the military, an oath to support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic. yet here we are three years later in the worst border crisis our nation has ever seen. i rise today because we find ourselves at a critical moment in our nation's history, a moment when the integrity of this very chamber and its leadership is being tested, a time when we will see if our colleagues across the aisle are willing to do the right thing and hold alejandro mayorkas accountable for his dereliction of duty that has left our country a shell of what she once was. now, with over 11 million border crossings, including 2 million unvetted got-aways now living here on united states soil, and monthing those are on un -- and the amongst those areal unknown number of terrorists

>> in assessing the official actsf president, do you ffentiate between president ting and the president acting as a candidate? >> yes, we do. we don't dispute the blazing -- the blasingame objective of that. >>n this litigation, did you challenge the appointment of special counsel? >> not directly but we have done so like in the florida case and we agreeitthe analysis provided by attorney general meese and casey and it points to an important issue. one of their arguments is th we should have the assumption of regularity. that runs into the reality we have here an extornary prosecutor early dish -- prosecutorial power exercised and confirmed by the senate at any me we agree with that position. ae. we haven't raised it yet in this case when it went up on appeal. >> justice alito? >> when you say that the official action be eund from the indictment, that in itself would not achieve muchnls evidence of those ofcial acts were precluded at trial. that what you are saying, that prosecution should not be permitted at trial to prove the official acts as part of the conspiracies that are alleged?

this is what the president wants to do. he's a president for all americans. on this issue, it's important to do that as well. >> [inaudible] is the president going to designate a coordinator? >> i'm glad that you asked that question. we have a couple things to share with you. the president has been briefed yesterday as well. the health and safety of american public is very serious. we take that very seriously. our top priority is to keep communities healthy, safe, informed. the white house immediately stood up a response team with relevant agencies like the cdc, fda, usda to ensure we are doing everything in our power to keep communities healthy, safe, informed. ensure that the food supply remains safe and monitor all trends to mitigate risk and prevent the spread of avian flu. we are in regular touch with relevant agencies and receiving daily updates. we take that very seriously. when you think about the avian flu, agencies have been paring for this for 20 years now. so we have invested the ability to test, prevent, treat. as cdc said themselves, right now t

in my opinion, the presidents of the universities, including the university president.as where i work is scared. they fear being criticized and condemned by politicians, the governor of texas, and members of congress. the president of columbia university in the united states has been threatened with dismissal because he cannot stop the protest take the students repression of non-believers, just like the anti-war movements of the 1970s, only increased in correlation. student revolution is a familiar keyword for the history of america and europe. if the dealings with these students continue, we will move to higher places. we remember how many students there were 54 years ago. they lost their lives for protesting the war in vietnam or cambodia. saeeda zanganeh, sed and sima news agency. secretary general of yemen's ansarullah movement and referring to the suppression of anti-zionist protests by students in the united states, said the american government's universities in this country has turned it into a garrison and does not even adhere to its slogans about democracy and

not a president in the middle of their term trying to govern, but a defeated president awaiting a president-elect and for the first time in our history, don't forget it, violently stopping a peaceful transition of power with a sedition that's now been convicted. that's some facts that i've put together for you, but i'm also going to quote from a long-time republican judge luttig. he testified before congress and he followed the constitution when he was dealing with outgoing president pence. he observes how the court largely avoided these points i'm mentioning today with arguments that discussed everything but the specific question presented. if a former president may be prosecuted for attempting to remain in power notwithstanding the election of his successor by the american people and, thus, depriving his lawfully elected successor of the powers of the presidency and preventing the peaceful transfer of power for the first time in american history. true. and while the court spent hours, i mean literally hours pondering how a coup might involve official acts, luttig notes that -- he knows it, too,

you don't have a president or at most you can say a ceremonial president, that is not what the founders in mind when the justices were on their game, presidential immunity is imperative for you practically want have a country anymore. maria: this on the heels of the initial arguments that we heard yesterday. the scotus warning that the supreme court is seen a dangerous precedent in trump's case if president can prosecute their political rivals. >> the president may be criminally prosecuted by a bitter political opponent. will that not lead us into a cycle that destabilizes the functioning of our country. we can look around the world and find countries where we have seen this process where the loser gets thrown in jail. >> i'm trying to understand the disincentive from turning the oval office into the seat of criminal activity in this country. once we say no criminal liability mr. president you can do whatever you want. >> i'm concerned about future uses of the committal law to target political opponents based on accusations about their motives. maria: this is all the reasons behind so m

what olc haslws said that sitting presidents get immunity but former president's? no. there might be a different argument made about whether a statute or whether a statute is applied to a particular couc is properly available ait the president. but that's a very dfent argument than the immunity claim that you are making here. olc has definitively not supported this. >> i don't know if i woulpu it that way. don't recall them addressing it but there is the langgef cases like marbury and statements made bjamin franklin at the constitutional conventionstements of george washington talking about the massivri of strife and how that could destroy the vement. at's what we rely on principally. i cite the olc opinions because if there's any statute that might impact on the president's prerogatives, they interpreted to avoid that. >> if a esent sells nuclear secrets to a foreign adversary, is that immune? >> that sounds similar to the bribery example and likely n immune. if it is structured as an official act, you would have to be impeachednd convicted first. >> what doest an if

a poll released earlier in the week had president biden up 1% over former president trump. still, a statistical slide. better news for kennedy with 11% support area the most recent national poll released this week from emerson college shows former president trump with a slightly higher edge, up 44% to president biden's 40% with kennedy at 8%. next, two of the latest ads from the biden and trump camps, which focus on campaign stops they made earlier in the week in and pennsylvania. then some highlights from candidate interactions with voters. scranton is a set of values. we pride ourselves on the importance of family. honesty and hard work. >> this was the beginning. president biden is my first cousin and there is pride in scranton. >> hard-working people. a lot of times, it goes way back before we were in grade school. >> scranton is a case study for what president biden has done since he has taken office. four years ago, we were distressed. we are out of financial distress in the city. people are happier because they can find a job. we have construction all over the city.

what is it abo t president? i've heard you say it's because e esident has to be able to act boldly andak consequential decisions. sure, but there are lots of people make life and death decisions but if they don't, they could be sent to is. >> from fitzgerald, that is the inferenceasoning this court rejected. >> fiterd was a civil situation in wchheredent actually was in a different position than other people. because of the nature of his job, the high-profile nature and the fact that he touches so many when you talk about private civil liability, anydyim street can s h and we can see that the present was sort of different than the ordinary person if you say he should be immune from cil ability. when we are talking of criminal how the president stands in any different position with respect to the need to follow the law in doing his job than anyone els >> he is required to followhe law. >> but he's not if there is no threat of criminal prosecution. what prevents the president from doing whatever he wants? >> all t

amy: then from prison to the presidency. we go to senegal where a pair of opposition leaders went from prison to ruling senegal in over three weeks. >> under my leadership, senegal will be a country of hope, peace, and independent justice system and a strengthened micro c. amy: we get an update. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the founder of world central kitchen chef josÉ andrÉs has accused israel of systematically targeting the 7 aid workers who were killed monday in a series of drone strikes in gaza. chef andres spoke to reuters on wednesday. >> what everybody knows, that seven team members between the special security people we have, three british individuals and three international -- one palestinian, that they were a target systematically car by car. amy: the killing of the aid workers has sparked global outrage. world central kitchen and other aid groups halting aid deliveries at a time when northern gaza is facing famine. the united

what did you tell president biden about the outlook for a summit and what to engagement to do us president biden president biden, my question, what did you hear from prime minister kishida? and what is your observation and feeding your precedent and with a nuclear missile issues, what is your position do you support the summit between japan and north korea? thank you. first of all, if i may, start regarding my summit meeting with the president biden about north korea, including the missile and nuclear issues. we have discussed, and regarding the increasingly worrying attrition, we have agreed to continue close coordination and on top of that it will be concurred but that the window of a discussion with north korea is open. and we discussed that japan us, japan, us and rok will continue to work closely together >> i >> also ask for the continued understand i'm think and cooperation for the immediate resolution of the adduction issue and the president biden once again, it gave myself a very it is strong assurance regarding the recent announcement by north korea i will refrain from commenting

russian president biden at the president isn't strong on any of the international conflicts. i mean, we see that a ram may potentially attack israel any day now you have people wondering what does that mean in terms of potential us military involvement. and here's trump providing this contrast of im, the strong individual. now, before covid, at least the first two years, we had none of these disasters. life was great as trump would argue. in many people believe that to be the case. i think it's why you see many democrats looking for another option instead of president biden, i think is why many democrats are worried about rfk, about cornel west, about jill stein, and many of those battleground states do they said some of that very critical support to any one of those other candidates >> what do you think is the best way for biden to counteract the international charges here that we're discussing. the idea that this is interesting because one of the reasons that president biden, one and beat donald trump, which did fair and square was because there was this perception that tru

he was still president when he is running for presidents. yes, he should have immunity. he did not commit any crimes. all these crimes have been made up so they can stop him from running for president again. >> woodrow in he shouldo, florida. democratic caller and you say no. hi. >> hello. tell us why. >> why? because i just personally believe he is guilty as sin. and he is not different from most of the rest of them and our country has gone to -- i won't say, but i don't believe he is entitled the to any consideration in my opinion. >> is any president -- is any president or former president -- should they -- are any of them open to prosecution? or is it just the former president? in this case? >> well, i believe it is -- we're talking about the former president. >> right. >> but -- but there are former presidents before him that were probably just as bad as he is. >> and should they under the law, should they be prosecuted? >> should they be prosecuted? i don't know. if they were not at the timing, and it's been years and years, i don't know that that would really do a

you have a president w who is te most unpopular president i in 7 years with the vice president who also she wasn't selected because of our competency. she was selected with diversity. the same thing with karine jean-pierre. she wasn't selected for competency. she was selected because joe biden wanted to check out some boxes. now we are stuck with her. >> i wish we had like that. she has asked about havana syndrome and afghanistan. she lets out a nervous chuckle. i don't think she intended to slide what happened in afghanistan. showing someone that doesn't seem ready for the job. we see it in the poll. 36% of voters approve of the performance. >> i am hoping we get that clip. she needs to be on camera herself doing this so that you can see that timing is sort of the context of the laughter. i think it is important. we have seen it so many times when she visited a science lab and took on an affected french accent. no one knew why. it isn't just the laughter, enters the nonserious moments that we see the vice president in at times when the world is on fire. the border is a good one. it isn