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
and then, renato, if trump is charged in georgia, it would be his fourth indictment, and i wonder what kind of coordination there might be. because if you look at the calendar of events involving all the other legal cases, expectations of trial, et cetera. is there some calculus as to which case would have the more favorable leverage over picking dates? it s very interesting. technically speaking, the prosecutors are all doing their own thing. obvisly there s four different judges who are going to be involved. they re going to have their own views, their own calenders. the defense is going to have their own agenda, what ty re going to want to push first. i m assuming they ll want to delay all four. i think ts prosecutors are going
the choice below at the end of the day to the president, yes, maybe david weiss had to be palatable, but he was still the choils of former president trump just like jeff berman was in the southern district of new york. maybe he was not the most partisan person to be appointed but he s still acceptable to the white house and department of justice handling those investigations at the time. it s sort of a preposterous defense. judge aileen cannon has set the trial date to begin august 14th. put that on your calenders. run for two weeks. that start date just 5 # days away. how unusual is this given federal trials can take up to year or more to prepare? well, this is a standard sort of order that you see issued in miami and other districts where the judges are committed to moving their cases along as quickly as possible. you know, this reflects the 70 days that the speedy trial act gives the government to bring a case to trial, but no one really
case, which suggests maybe more people know what s going on, which suggests maybe it is indeed coming to a close, which means clear your calenders, everybody. thank you both for your time tonight. we have a lot to get to tonight including a big development in the other special counsel investigation into donald trump involving trump whisperer steve bannon. that is next. plus, the hazards of climate change were made not only visible but physically palpable for much of the united states today, and guess what republicans were doing? that s coming up. what republicans were doing that s coming up
get three weeks? that s not that usual, and d.a. willis had two months in order to respond. so there s been a rather long time frame on this, and a judge is going to have to decide before july. okay, well, mark your calenders for july, august, or september. the list goes on. great to see you guys. thanks for joining me tonight. when we come back voters headed to the polls tonight for a bunch of races featuring election deniers and 2020 truthers. we re going to get the latest from america s sweetheart steve kornacki just ahead. t ahead.