Through friday. Ill take it. Lets be clear, i do not think that you are more important then the Inflation Reduction Act, but i do i do think that you are better, and i am more excited about your anniversary. I thank you for that. You have not known the Inflation Reduction Act for what is it my god, 25 years . And you have that. I will take it. Im just thrilled to have this kind of with you every four days a week chris. It is the thing that brings me joy, my friend. Happy anniversary. Thanks, buddy. Thanks for a great show, as always. Nks, buddy thanks to you at home for joining me this hour once again. We now have a date, march 4th, 2024. That is the day that Fulton County district attorney, fani willis, proposed her case against trump and his 18 codefendants that is the date that she would like to put it to trial. Just two months after the january 2nd date that Special Counsel jack smith proposed for the federal case against trumps attempts to overturn the 2020 election. And it would
know for monday, march 20th. donald trump making a push to avoid criminal charges. in the stormy daniels case, one of his allies will testify before a new york jury today, and this all comes as trump claimed that he will be arrested tomorrow but the timing of any potential indictment remains unclear. a lot more on that. and another roller coaster week for financial markets began as a major bank takeover is announced. swiss relagulators announced ub is buying credit suisse. asian and european markets are down. vladimir putin playing host today to chinese president xi jinping. the two leaders are set to meet in moscow, a critical moment for russia s war in ukraine, days after the war crimes arrest for vladimir putin. a state of emergency has been declared in miami beach. unruly crowds, the city s mayor is calling the situation untolerable. ted lasso is headed to the white house. jason sudeikis and the cast will be there to talk about the importance of mental health. cnn
i don t think that s what backing the blue means. backing the blue is basically, in the way that they have to use that phrase, means that the law should be a kind of praetorian guard against a certain strata of people and then it should be backed in doing whatever it needs to do to defend them and their property. it certainly doesn t mean law and order in the general sense of the global sense. otherwise the republican party would ve been outraged over what happened to the capitol police on january 6th. let s keep in mind the genesis of back the blue was a conservative response to the black lives matter movement. there is an implicit racial and racist threat that runs through this confederacy of people. the police are not supposed to police them. the police are supposed to police those other people. when the police and out policing a donald trump or ronny jackson, they are by definition, by this definition, stepping out of their proper role.
hearing from people like marc short or other lawmakers that they believe in the short-term this could politically be beneficial to trump. he gets to have an image walking into the courthouse. i m told he might make a speech after. it s an interesting idea. if they believe that, they should celebrate the prospect of an arrest, if they think it will help him politically. i don t think it will help him politically. on january 6th, however misguided people may have been or factually off base or riled up by the rally that proceeded the attack, they thought something important was at stake, the outcome of the election and the leadership of the country. in this case, what are you going to risk your freedom for, so that trump can get away with hush money payments to lie about cheating on his third wife? i mean, this is not serious stuff on one level. this is not really a public dispute on another level. it s really just a question of did he break some laws in the context of doing what is bro
way and nobody should. nobody should harm one another in this. it is going to cause mayhem, paula. it s a very scary time in our country. if this is what we re doing in this country, you better secure the premises because it s dangerous. people are going to get upset. let s bring in cnn political commentator, errol louis. good morning. you have some republicans saying don t protest and don t do it. you have attorneys saying this is wrong and that s what you should expect. what do you make of this, and the nypd is preparing. what they call mayhem in is the the streets is what we call tuesday. anybody thinking about coming here to cause disruption should be aware that there were 2,000 capitol police on january 6th. there were 35,000 members of the nypd and they ve got drones and submarines and, you know, if people want to come and protest,