States of scandal with jake good morning. You were alive in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta and washington donald trump is off the Campaign Trail and back in the courtroom just minutes ago he arrived at the federal courthouse in South Florida for a hearing and his classified documents, case trump and his attorneys will ask the judge to dismiss the charges or at least grant them a delay in the trial and delay could also be looming in trumps election subversion okay. Its down in Fulton County, georgia at any time now, the Presiding Judge there could announce if District Attorney fani willis is disqualified from the case and a decision that could derail the trial from starting in august. Lets begin with the classified documents hearing today in florida. Cnns Kaitlan Polantz is outside the courthouse. Kaitlan, how likely is it that a judge Aileen Cannon will dismiss the case . There jim, that is going to be entirely up to her and were watching to see exactly how she reacts to the arguments
Also this hour, ron desantis at war with some fellow republicans who are taking aim at the Florida Governor over his support of Teaching Guidelines that suggest enslaved people benefited from slavery. All that, plus a woman who faked a story about going missing is now being charged for false report by officials, you say they wish they could have gone further. In a global heat wave from soaring temperatures here at home, to heat fueled wildfires overseas, will bring you the latest on the dangerous situation around the world. Lebron james posts new video of his son, brawny, just days after he went into Cardiac Arrest. What bronnys Health Crisis can teach parents of other Young Athletes, especially young men of color, thats all coming up next. Were gonna begin with former President Trumps rally in pennsylvania, which is set to start in just a few hours, hell be hearing even more baggage this time, with those for us charges from the doj on the classified documents case. Lets go right to it
his approval, the worst for a first-term president in the survey s history going all the way back to harry s. truman chlt only 36% ever voters say the president is doing a good job down by six points just since february. and with just a year and a half until the next presidential election, more than half of democrats say they want what you know i call anybody but biden. polling now shows the president getting trounced by both former president donald trump and florida governor ron desantis in a head-to-head match-up. donna brazil was the chair of the national committee when trump won the white house. she said her party should be worried. it kept me up and i thought they should wake up and look at those numbers. it is sober in the sense that the coalition that elected joe biden with the historic numbers that we saw in 2020, that coalition right now is fragmented. that should concern them. harris: a new op-ed is asking the tough question, do democrats need a nixon-like inter
tonight, utter defiance and deflection. we know you ll stay on this one. melissa par on the ground for us, thank you so much. joining me now is deadline legal blog writer, jordan reuben. jordan, i read a lot of you are, it s a busy week for you. no wonder what is your latest articles, it s not unusual for prosecutors to bring superseding indictments to add charges, and or defendants to existing indictments. that s an important context. could we see even more additions? and what were some of your biggest takeaways here? so, we could see more additions. i d be a little surprised if we did. only because it s a little late in the day, so to speak. i imagine that jack smith does not want to make this case more complicated than he has to. at the same time, the initial indictment, if you remember, was not a document that seem to need much, if any work. here we have the superseding indictment that s now even stronger. we ll have to see whether there are more, in terms of the take away, tha
the grand jury with a view toward bringing subsequent or superseding indictments. in large cases it s not unusual for prosecutors to add defendants or to add charges after they have asked the grand jury to return that first indictment. i would suspect you re going to see superseding indictments in this case. what we don t know we re all on the edge of our seat about what s the timing of the first indictment? it could be today. the question is is this the thursday or just a thursday. even if there s an indictment today, we don t know who it could be for. we know trump got the target letter. don t know if others received a target letters. they don t have to send target letters. glenn, then there s mark meadows, trump s former chief of staff. he turned over texts, emails, possibly other evidence. he fought it but ultimately