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[00:00:00]The the immunity decision by the Supreme Court gave Donald Trump immunity for any interactions that he has with his Attorney General, right? Was there any Were there caveats to that? Any interactions with his Attorney General.

[00:00:12]What it said was, I think it's a little bit more narrow than that. It was talking in the context of getting advice from people at the Department of Justice vis-a-vis the 2020 election. It said that conversations that he had with people in the Department of Justice at that time could be considered official acts and therefore were covered by immunity for his official acts. But of course, in the wake of that decision, we never had further litigation that sorted out what was official and what was unofficial. And certainly Jack Smith and his lawyers were saying that a bulk of actions that the president took that were under indictment were in fact unofficial acts. One could say the same about this, that ultra vires or patently unlawful acts, acts that violate an existing federal law are themselves could never be official. And Kitty, I want to point out to you and the viewers, there's a federal statute that prohibits certain people in the federal government from influencing an audit, either the conduct of an audit or stopping an audit. One of the people that is specifically enumerated in that statute is the president of the United States. If Congress viewed the president as immune from prosecution, it would have never named the president in that statute as someone who couldn't commit that act. Because what is the way in which that statute's enforced? It's enforced by criminal prosecution by that very same Department of Justice.

[00:01:27]>> is all so tangled and hard to follow.

[00:01:30]Um and when you talk about the Supreme Court and the way they've ruled against the president, I I I guess I bring it up for for the reason that they they just have There's been a knee-jerk reaction to allow a president or an executive to do whatever they want almost while they're in office. And when you're starting to define or or trying to define what is an official act and what is not an official act, I wonder is this the sort of thing that would be clear-cut? Am I Am I wrong to even bring this into the conversation?

[00:01:58]No, I think you're absolutely right because I think it's there is a very good argument that it's not an official act. Donald Trump here is he filed this lawsuit as in his personal capacity as did his sons and his company. And so I think that you could say that that is outside the scope of his official acts. The reason this case is so problematic from the start is that it is quite highly doubtful that this court ever had jurisdiction for this case to be filed in the first place. And as you pointed out earlier, today was the day when the parties were supposed to justify the case as a genuine case or controversy. And so if there is no case or controversy, that means there can be no settlement of an illegitimate claim. And so creating this bucket of money to pay out to political cronies is therefore outside the scope of not only a legitimate legal case, but outside the scope of the presidential's official duties. I think it's also noteworthy that the president has this constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. And so to the extent he is directing his Justice Department to engage in this activity, I think one could argue that he is outside the scope of his legitimate authority there as well. Now, the one question will be who has standing as a plaintiff to challenge this. We saw a case brought today by Harry Dunn, who was one of the police officers who was beaten on January 6th.

[00:03:25]I don't think he's going to have standing in this case, but you know who would?

[00:03:29]James Comey. I'd love to see him file a claim.

[00:03:32]>> [laughter] [music] >> Good evening from New York. I'm Chris Hayes. The outrage over Donald Trump's plan to just help himself to 1.776 billion dollars of your money is building by the hour, by the day. 1.776 billion, right? 1776, get it?

[00:03:49]It is a settlement in scare quotes of Trump's IRS lawsuit, although not approved by a judge, he just rescinded the lawsuit, offered to him by his own government, the one he controls, in order to dole out to his insurrectionist friends, and really, just to be clear, if you read the text of the settlement, to anyone, uh anywhere, as the commission sees fit.

[00:04:11]Yesterday, both Vice President J.D.

[00:04:13]Vance and Todd Blanche, former Trump criminal defense attorney, who now serves as acting attorney general, who's going to oversee this uh fund, worked hard to make the deal seem reasonable, and they failed abjectly.

[00:04:25]Today, you've got Republicans coming out against it on Capitol Hill.

[00:04:30]It doesn't look right. You can't do it that way when it's when it you're negotiating with yourself uh and for yourself. What do you make of this $1.7 billion fund for? That news part, we're going to try to kill it.

[00:04:43]You're going to try to kill it? It is um as if somebody sued themselves and agreed upon a settlement with themselves that's going to be funded by the rest of us.

[00:04:51]Now, if that's the case, what?

[00:04:54]Wait a second. You know, I just came off the campaign trail.

[00:04:57]The people are concerned about making their own ends meet, not about putting a slush fund together uh without a legal precedent.

[00:05:04]That's a Republican calling Trump's settlement a slush fund, and another one threatening to kill it. Even the top Republican in the Senate, the one who sets the body's agenda, is sounding skeptical.

[00:05:15]What are your thoughts about this organization fund from the president?

[00:05:20]Yeah, not a big fan.

[00:05:22]And uh I'm not sure if that's how they can use it, but uh my understanding is that was just announced, and um but yeah, I don't know.

[00:05:32]I don't see a purpose for it.

[00:05:34]I don't see a purpose for it.

[00:05:36]So, just, you know, in 24 hours, you have a significant number of Republicans in key positions that are turning against this brazenly corrupt act out of a brazenly corrupt administration, and it's just one development of many today showing the very quickly building backlash to this madness. I mean, you heard it from Senator Cassidy again, who's a bit untethered now, right? He he lost his primary. He's not going to be in the Senate.

[00:05:57]In fact, two police officers who were assaulted on January 6th filed suit today to stop it. We're going to talk to one of those officers in just a few minutes.

[00:06:06]But I think again, when this first came out, it was so strange that it was kind of shocking, but also I think a lot of people like, wait, what? Could this So, today it's really sinking in for people what this is.

[00:06:19]Not only is Donald Trump stealing $1.8 billion of your money, of all of our money, that could go to any number of things to make people's lives better, just straight up withdrawing it from the Treasury. There will be a transfer from the Treasury draining the bank account that our money sits in.

[00:06:36]He is very likely to give it out to the people who violently stormed the Capitol on his behalf in an attempt to steal an election in a biggest gravest threat to the constitutional order since the Civil War.

[00:06:49]The people, you remember, who beat police officers.

[00:06:53]People who sought to harm elected officials. People who were convicted of seditious conspiracy against the United States, one of the rarest and most serious crimes in the entire federal code. Plotting to use violence to overthrow the government.

[00:07:08]As the New York Times reports, many convicted pardon pardon rioters are, as you might imagine, elated at the possibility they're going to get some of that sweet moolah, that a payout is going to be coming their way.

[00:07:21]In some cases, as we've been tracking, many of those rioters that Trump pardoned have gone on to commit other crimes, assaulted police officers, beating them to within an inch of their life. It would include the people convicted of seditious conspiracy.

[00:07:33]That's what Trump's saying. And keep in mind here, the Department of Justice already paid off Trump's disgraced former national security adviser Michael Flynn more than a million of your dollars after the DOJ prosecuted him for lying to law enforcement, a crime by the way he played guilty to. He was pardoned by Trump.

[00:07:50]That million dollars was peanuts next to the millions they paid to the family of Ashli Babbitt, the capital rioter who was shot and killed by law enforcement after trying to storm the speaker's lobby, the first one through the door while elected officials were still evacuating there with an enormous brain mob behind her.

[00:08:06]And now Trump has a 1.8 billion dollar pool of money transferred from you to him by his own government. And so millions of dollars of taxpayer money will be flowing, it appears, as reparations.

[00:08:22]The country got reparations, would you look at that? But January 6th reparations to a group that includes child sex offenders.

[00:08:29]How do you feel about the money going to those people?

[00:08:32]Your money going to those people.

[00:08:34]How do you feel about that?

[00:08:38]Senator Chris Van Hollen explicitly asked Todd Blanche to rule that specific scenario out yesterday and he did not.

[00:08:47]There's also an individual who, after being pardoned by the president, uh went on to molest two children. Can you commit to making the rule so that that person is not eligible for a payout under this fund? Well, you're obviously lying in your question because there's no way that this person committed to that. But this the slush fund as you call it, which is not, didn't exist.

[00:09:12]>> I I'm No, no, no. No, he wasn't lying. Blanche said the senator was lying because he wasn't lying. Sure, the slush fund hadn't existed yet.

[00:09:20]But this guy, the one who's doing life for multiple rapes of children, that guy thought the money was coming cuz Donald Trump telegraphed it was. And guess what?

[00:09:31]He guessed correctly because the slush fund does exist now. So here's Senator Patty Murray simply stating the facts of that case.

[00:09:39]I just have to tell you this is corruption that has never been more blatant or more right spin. What is happening is you write the check, Trump and his cronies cash it, American taxpayers who are already being whacked with high prices are going to foot the bill.

[00:09:54]That's what we are seeing today and that is what many of us are really, really angry about.

[00:10:02]So what can be done to stop it?

[00:10:04]Well, Democratic effort to subpoena Blanche and the other officials behind Trump's settlement failed this evening.

[00:10:09]That's because Republicans voted against it, but even Republicans are grumbling a little bit about the president's abuse of power and so there is a chance that as with the release of the Epstein files, Congress can file a discharge petition to block the slush fund.

[00:10:21]It is a legislative move that's incredibly rare, but before Donald Trump We have to halt the footage right there and dissect exactly what is unfolding under the radar.

[00:10:31]Because what you are witnessing is a massive structural clash between raw executive ambition and the absolute outer boundaries of constitutional law.

[00:10:41]The mainstream news networks are doing their usual dance.

[00:10:45]They are covering the surface-level shouting matches, focusing on the partisan noise in the hearing rooms, and treating this like a temporary political embarrassment.

[00:10:54]But they are completely missing the explosive, deeply dangerous, and historic legal pivot that is quietly taking place inside the highest legal institutions of this country. Let's address the massive elephant in the room that has Washington completely paralyzed with fear.

[00:11:10]The incredible unfolding reality behind the headline that the Supreme Court may be forced to completely change its mind and systematically block what critics are calling a brazen multi-billion-dollar blueprint to permanently capture the electoral machinery of the United States.

[00:11:29]To understand the true depth of this structural crisis, you have to look past the political spin and analyze the raw, unyielding mechanics of the law.

[00:11:39]Look at what was just exposed on that congressional floor.

[00:11:43]We are looking at a jaw-dropping, unprecedented $1.776 billion settlement fund.

[00:11:50]A number explicitly calculated to evoke patriotic imagery while masking what is fundamentally a state-sponsored political cash reservoir. Donald Trump did not just settle a standard run-of-the-mill lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service.

[00:12:05]He aggressively engineered a mechanism where his own administration negotiated with itself, for itself, to withdraw massive amounts of capital directly from the United States Treasury.

[00:12:18]This isn't just a routine administrative settlement. This is an absolute weaponization of executive discretion, designed to build a massive, permanent war chest to reward political loyalists, insulate extreme political factions from the consequences of federal law, and establish a financial infrastructure capable of influencing future electoral cycles.

[00:12:42]Todd Blanche can scowl at the cameras, demand absolute submission from the Senate, and insist that he is operating as a legitimate acting attorney general.

[00:12:51]But his frantic, deeply defensive posture proves that the administration knows it has pushed the legal envelope to a terminal breaking point. They are attempting to shield this multi-billion dollar transfer under the massive umbrella of presidential immunity that the Supreme Court established in its historic 2024 ruling.

[00:13:12]But this is exactly where their entire strategy is beginning to critically unravel.

[00:13:17]And it is why a massive institutional counteroffensive is rapidly gathering strength.

[00:13:23]And that is the exact, undeniable reason why the legal and political of Washington have just been thrown into a state of total unprecedented chaos and structural panic.

[00:13:36]The corporate media is treating the Supreme Court's past immunity decision as a permanent blank check for executive overreach.

[00:13:44]But top-tier constitutional experts and federal litigators are pointing out a massive fatal flaw in the administration's defensive playbook. The 2024 Supreme Court ruling gave a president broad protections for official acts, particularly regarding internal communications with the Department of Justice.

[00:14:04]But it explicitly left open the burning question of what constitutes an unofficial personal action.

[00:14:11]When Donald Trump filed this massive tax lawsuit against the IRS, he did not do so in his official capacity as the head of the executive branch.

[00:14:20]He filed it in his strict personal capacity alongside his private business entities and his family members.

[00:14:28]Therefore, the moment the acting attorney general attempts to use federal taxpayer funds to settle a private personal lawsuit for the explicit benefit of political allies, they are stepping completely outside the boundaries of official presidential duties.

[00:14:44]They are committing what the law defines as an ultra vires act, an action taken entirely outside the scope of legitimate legal authority, which can never be shielded by constitutional immunity.

[00:14:55]This blatant overreach has triggered an immediate fierce backlash that is completely shattering party unity on Capitol Hill.

[00:15:04]For the first time in modern political history, we are seeing key high-ranking Republicans break formation and openly condemn an action taken by a president of their own party.

[00:15:16]When conservative senators and representatives look directly at national television cameras and brand this multi-billion-dollar pool of money a corrupt slush fund that must be systematically destroyed.

[00:15:28]The political protection contract is officially dead.

[00:15:32]They are hearing the raw fury of their own constituents, working-class Americans who are actively struggling to make ends meet under intense economic pressure, watching their hard-earned tax dollars being drained from the public treasury to fund political payouts.

[00:15:48]But the resistance isn't just happening in the halls of Congress.

[00:15:52]It is exploding across the federal court system. The filing of high-stakes lawsuits by federal law enforcement officers who were assaulted on January 6th represents a massive, unpredictable legal hurdle for the administration.

[00:16:06]These litigants are aggressively challenging the core jurisdiction of the settlement itself, arguing that there is no genuine, legitimate case or controversy under Article III of the Constitution.

[00:16:19]If there is no real legal controversy to begin with, the entire settlement is a legal fiction, an illegitimate construct that cannot legally result in the transfer of a single dollar from the federal treasury.

[00:16:33]Furthermore, the administration's strategy relies on the desperate assumption that this current Supreme Court will blindly rubber-stamp any expansion of executive authority.

[00:16:44]But legal history proves that even the most conservative judiciaries have a hard, unyielding line when it comes to the preservation of their own institutional supremacy. The Supreme Court has repeatedly demonstrated, most notably in the historical fights over classified documents post-presidency, that once an executive attempt to wield absolute, unchecked authority threatens to completely dismantle the system of checks and balances, the court will aggressively move to protect the constitutional architecture.

[00:17:16]If future or a coalition of lawmakers successfully launch a rare historic legislative discharge petition to block the release of these funds, the entire legal fiction collapses.

[00:17:30]Any protections the administration thinks it has engineered are strictly temporary.

[00:17:36]They apply only to past completed actions, meaning future prosecutors, future IRS investigations, and future administrations can completely untangle, reverse, and criminally prosecute every single individual involved in this brazen transfer. The system is actively preparing to reject this unprecedented abuse of power.

[00:17:59]And the resulting legal explosion will permanently reshape the landscape of American democracy.

[00:18:06]We are going to stay on top of every single unsealed document, every hidden line item in the federal budget, and every quiet shift within the Supreme Court as this monumental constitutional showdown intensifies.

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