Carol Leonnig

They conclude that it's very unlikely and they stop having their security meetings.

The immunity decision, again, is really interesting by how it reverberates when it comes down in July of 2024, because inside Attorney General Merrick Garland's office, he is just shocked by the opinion and conveys to his aides, because he knows these justices personally, that they have to know that what they've written is wrong.

You know, we actually, at the Washington Post when I was there, there was a decent amount of polling we were doing, trying to talk to our readers and also just citizens across America about whether or not an indictment and a trial would impact their view of Trump if they were already Trump supporters.

And some of them said it would change things for them to see that evidence.

But remember, we're reporters who weren't rooting for a particular president.

We weren't trying to push for one thing or another.

But we know from our reporting how devastating the failure to get this before the

And the person who said that best, we learned about a private meeting of judges where a Republican appointee was meeting with others in the D.C.

bench where the case would have been heard.

And he's very, very well respected.

Judge John Bates served as the chief of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for many years.

And has a broad support among Democrats and Republicans or I should say appointments by Democrat or Republican judges very down the middle.

And he said in this group setting, this was a huge failure of the American justice system that these trials never saw a courtroom.

Thank you.

It's great to be with you as usual.

It's great to be with you as usual.

It's great to be with you as usual.

No, just, you know, working on my self-care, my nails, nothing going on.

No, just, you know, working on my self-care, my nails, nothing going on.

No, just, you know, working on my self-care, my nails, nothing going on.