Trump focuses on presidential immunity after Supreme Court Colorado decision

by going back to the you know the battled days of trump where he just comes out with a word salad and you know whatever comes to mind and whatever allegation he can toss out that's a great question Katie and one that I'll be trying to answer today Donald Trump has displayed more discipline over the course of this campaign than some of his previous ones in these moments not really what you saw here today clearly not a prepared statement clearly not especially focused on the ruling today but I thi

nk goes to the point that sort of looks at all of these cases holistically and he tries to argue that they're all related he's trying to make the case that somehow this is all coordinated by the White House to go after him and taking advantage of the fact that he's going to have a lot of eyeballs on him because of the Colorado ruling today but this is it right to I think you heard there one of the things that I think was most clear was related to point that Ken made earlier this idea that arguin

g that he shouldn't be prosecuted for things he didn't mention any of the things related to January 6th he was making a case that he shouldn't be prosecuted for going after Isis or uh General solomani uh the Iranian General he killed uh when he was president those are not the things that he is being prosecuted for so trying to project out a little bit of you know protection for himself rhetorically as these cases advance and trying to draw people into the idea that somehow all of these things ar

e part of a massive conspiracy to stop him from being elected president Ken jump in yeah Garrett's absolutely right he was he's what he's doing is he's grasping at the legitimate argument that there are some cases where perhaps a president should be immune based on the decisions that he or she makes and he's he's sort of he's sort of trying to embrace that argument and and use that as a shield uh and he's again talking about drone strikes that he argue targeted killings which by the way were not

even controversial under law when people talk about that uh whether drone strikes being controversial they talk about Barack Obama's decision to kill an American citizen uh anir alaki uh but there was nothing about taking out the leader of Isis or an Iranian General was remotely illegal under us law but yeah I mean nothing about um his conduct in trying to overturn the election or or with regard to classified documents um and I it appears that he's hoping that the Supreme Court will will will i

ssue this blanket immunity get out of jail free card for presidents remember his lawyers in that appeals court argued that a president could order an assassination of his political opponents and could not be prosecuted unless he was first impeached that was their argument that's what they hope the Supreme Court holds most legal experts don't think that's how it's going to come out