recuse herself from donald trump s classified documents case despite recommendations to do so from two other federal judges. and democrats are targeting a 150-year-old law in their latest effort to protect reproductive rights nationwide. all right, good morning. welcome to way too early on this friday. thank god, friday. june 21st. i m sam stein in for jonathan lemire. for the first time in months president biden has overtaken donald trump in national polling averages. according to the poll aggregate site, 538, biden took a 0.8% lead in the race yesterday. that is the first time biden has led at least since march, which is as far back as the website s tracker goes. the change comes after a series of recent polls showed biden narrowly ahead of trump though all the results were within the margin of error. there s new audio now of donald trump admitting he lost the 2020 election and then quickly reverting back to the big lie. comes from research from the new book apprenti
joe biden son. the president promised to connect ukraine s president to his personal attorney, rudy giuliani, and the attorney general of the united states bill barr. cnn legal analyst counsel to the assistant attorney general of national security and the chief counsel for the house judiciary democrats during the clinton impeachment. so thank you both for being with me, and starting with you, you know, this is not a verbatim transcript. in reading this today, do you see a smoking gun? i think it s pretty close to a smoking gun and i think that combined with the fact that the director of national intelligence getting, the acting directing getting ready to tender his resignation if he couldn t provide the whistle-blower information is sort of a house of cards that s starting to fall around the administration. i think it s not inevitable we re going to see an impeachment vote in the house of representatives but i think the center of gravity has now gone away from a decisive unlikely
encouraging people to go into the streets because trump has obstructed american principles. mr. president, i am trying to end the war we re in. announcer: this is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camero camerota. donald trump has created tension with his party and democrats and several key departments all in just 12 hours. the acting attorney general was just fired for not defending mr. trump s travel and refugee ban, and the trump administration demoting and replacing the acting directing of immigration and customs enforcement, and we call it i.c.e., and there s