Opposition leader. Hello, im wolf blitzer in washington and youre in the cnn newsroom right now, donald trump is inside a florida courtroom for a crucial hearing. It could decide when the criminal case over his handling of classified documents goes to trial. The judge is set to determine whether it will move forward as planned. In may or be delayed. Trumps lawyers now say they would accept the trial in august. Thats three months before election day here in the united states. Cnns chief Legal Affairs correspondent, paula reid is outside the courthouse in fort pierce, florida for us. Paula, have you heard anything yet from inside the court . Yes. Well, if we just got our first update, a handwritten note from inside the courthouse, were learning from our colleagues who are inside watching these proceedings. Its so far the Special Counsel and trumps lawyers, they have been discussing this larger question of timing such a consequential issue in this case, because we know the Special Counsel
Trial dates in the trump documents case. Jack smith wants it sooner, the defense later. It says it wont be fair unless its much later as an after the election. And john kings Election Year journey all over the map, taking him to pennsylvania tonight to see how seniors view a race between the two oldest president ial candidate its ever. Good evening, thanks for joining us. We begin tonight, keeping them honest with immigration, the issue americans now called their top concern according to recent polling. Today, President Biden and former President Trump made dueling visits. The Texas Southern border, biden to brownsville, trump to eagle pass to cities about 300 miles apart. Two candidates who each in his own way has failed to fix a broken and severely overburdened Border Security and Asylum System. President biden, many believed by omission, by not making the problem enough of a priority until recently, even after a year of increasing numbers of people crossing the border. And rising Bo
Cupp. Thank you. Thank you. All of that thank you for watching news night. Laura coates live starts right now more than meet the eye and Donald Trumps Classified Documents Trial will tell you whats really going on tonight on Laura Coates Live all right. Wake up. Dont sleep on the maralago trial. Sure. The Supreme Courts been getting all the attention. What with arguments on trumps claims of president ial immunity said to come before them. The week of april 22. But there is some big news tonight out of florida. Looks like jack smith wants to get the Classified Documents k is moving as soon as possible, and hes asking for a new trial date. This time the month of july. So while youre on summer vacation, dont trump could actually be in court. So saying in Court Filings tonight that he believes trump and his two codefendants body man, walt nauta and maralago property manager, carlos de olivera, should go to trial on july 8, if not coincidentally, or maybe not coincidentally, one week before
But do you really think that democrats are how do you think that democrats should talk about immigration . An Election Year so theres additional polling out yesterday that shows when democrats just simply point out what happened on the bipartisan border bill that it was the toughest bill if enacted in decades. And it was killed by donald trump that republicans political advantage on the issue of immigration disappears it literally disappears because people, you know, kind of have come to that conclusion that yeah, republicans talk a big game on immigration, but have they ever done anything . No, they havent. I think democrats should lead with a simple message. We believe in border security. We want to protect the border and we have a plan to get that done republicans have no plan to get that done. Now, i also think that we should talk about the importance of providing a pathway to citizenship for people that are here, we should maintain robust Legal Immigration, but we should not be af
Falsehoods that, for example, in these Text Messages that were purposely leaked to the media as it relates to ms williss daughter subjecting her her position in school, that she flunked out of college, which isnt true. Which in fact she has graduated from an hbcu. But whats been leaked to the media is the fact that she flunked out of school and someone other than her father moved her, which again, the validity of which was never shown and all the while ms willis facing these costs has been able to continue to do the work unrelated to this case, which is shown in the fact that land is murder rate and Violent Crime rates have decreased. Why she has been in office what was shown through the testimony of all of the witnesses and through the evidence that your honor heard, was that there wasnt an actual conflict that the defense failed to provide any sort of actual conflict in relation to ms wades . I guess the relationship that transpired from other relationship between her and mr. Wade, a