With Donald Trump present for the first time in months, federal appeals court judges in Washington expressed deep skepticism on Jan. 9 that the former president was immune from prosecution on charges that he plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
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00:00 We had a very momentous day in terms of what was learned and what they've conceded.
00:06 They conceded two major points that were right in doing it.
00:11 I don't think they had much of a choice, but they're very, very big, very powerful points.
00:15 That's a very sad thing that's happened with this whole situation.
00:20 When they talk about threat to democracy, that's a real threat to democracy.
00:25 And I feel that as a president, you have to have immunity. Very simple.
00:30 And if you don't, as an example, if this case were lost on immunity,
00:35 and I did nothing wrong, absolutely nothing wrong, I'm working for the country.
00:40 So you can't have a president without immunity.
00:44 You have to have, as a president, you have to be able to do your job.
00:47 But if this didn't work out, if I wasn't given immunity,
00:52 then other presidents, when we talked about today, President Obama with the drone strikes,
00:57 which were really bad, they were mistakes, terrible mistakes.
01:03 You really can't put a president in that position.
01:07 So I think most people understand it, and we feel very confident that eventually,
01:12 hopefully at this level, but eventually we win.
01:15 A president has to have immunity.
01:17 I want to thank everybody very much, and we think we had a very good day today.
01:22 The concession of these two major points was pretty amazing,
01:27 and honestly I'm very glad they did it. I think they did the right thing.
01:31 Thank you very much.