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Jan 2024
34m 11s

The Truman Precedent

MSNBC
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Why Trump thinks presidents need total immunity from prosecution. Plus: Andrew Weissmann and Mary McCord on the latest from E. Jean Carroll’s second defamation case as oral arguments wrap up this week. 
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