Bring in now somebody who was in the courtroom,
actually, for those arguments. Carrie Cubeck,
Urban Fox News legal editor.
Tell me what you heard today and what you saw.
Well, the bottom line question that both sides were vigorously
arguing about is kind of president be prosecuted for acts
once he or she leaves office for acts conducted during
that time. And obviously the president,
the former president, says no,
he should enjoy it and should be able to.
That absolute immunity is afforded to presidents for official acts
conducted while in office.
And the Department of Justice says no.
Both sides were subject to pretty heavy questioning from the
judges,
the three judge panel there.
One judge asked the Trump defense team.
Well, what happens if if the president?
Asked a SEAL 16 to assassinate a political enemy,
would that person with the president be immune from prosecution?
Then, on the other hand,
one of the judges asked DOJ.
Well, what happens if we do issue the opinion the
way that we want you,
that you want us to,
that a president is not immune for conduct during the
time that he or she was in president?
Won't that open the floodgates for potential political prosecution and
persecution?
Oh, are they thinking, Biden?
And well, the point being that if any court issues
an opinion saying that a president can be prosecuted for
acts committed conducted while in office.
A political enemy could use that opinion in a campaign
or the time after it,
right? So of course. And and so the only other
president that we have right now that might be facing
anything as we're watching Congress dig deeper and deeper in
their investigations, Republicans in the House would be the current
president,
Joe Biden. So that's why I ask.
And eight or nine members of his family under scrutiny,
Under scrutiny, too.
And that's the point that Trump's defense team made as
well,
the former presidents at a council's table.
He was pretty stoic the entire time he sat forward.
He was leaned in, he was engaged.
He occasionally talked to counsel on his left.
And I have to tell you,
Harris, I thought the three judge panel was somewhat skeptical
of the Department of Justice's arguments.
You could tell they were concerned about precedent that they
would set if they set.
A president is not immune for from prosecution for acts
conducted during office.
They also obviously are wrestling with what?
What does in fact though,
happen if a president, say,
commit some kind of crime while in office?
Well, what happens after that?
But I certainly walked away from there not thinking that
they had landed anywhere in particular,
but they they that they themselves are wrestling with it
as well.
They know they have to get this right,
whichever way it comes. That's right.
Yeah. They're they're on the line too.
Great to see you. Thank you very much.
Great reporting, Carrie.