What well garland do. Im Michael Smerconish in philadelphia, Attorney General Merrick Garland may eventually make a singular decision that determines the outcome of the 2024 election, whether the doj will continue to push for donald trump to be tried before election day in the federal case, premised on alleged Election Interference for months. Here, ive delivered commentaries focused on the timing of this particular prosecution because i think its most perilous to trump, and ive often done so with the assistance of elie honig will join me again in a moment. Heres the issue on wednesday, scotus granted cert and announced that the high court will hear Donald Trumps Immunity Defense i dont think the ultimate outcome is in dispute. I think trump loses that claim. In my opinion, its unlikely its illogical that the court will provide Blanket Immunity from criminal prosecution to an american president more important is the process, the timing of the courts Decision Garland told cnns evan pere
Internationally were creating the evidence what is possible so that others can pick it up and run with it oh, i love that. Ill be sure to tune in next saturday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern for that champions for change, onehour special and thank you so much for joining me today. Amphoteric a Whitfield Smerconish starts right now tension between the us and israel over the war with hamas. Im Michael Smerconish in philadelphia on friday, the Biden Administration said that it is reasonable to assess that us weapons have been used by Israeli Forces in gaza in ways that are inconsistent with International Humanitarian law. But they stop short of officially saying that israel violated that law. The report drafted by the State Department said, investigations are ongoing, but that the us does not have complete information. This followed israels Security Cabinet Approval of an expansion of the area of operation of the shelling in rafah after President Joe Biden threatened to withhold us weapons if isra
231231 this is cnn. the world s news the next verdict will come on election day. i m michael smerconish and philadelphia donald trump is the first former us president to be a convicted felon. but will the verdict help or hurt is 2024 campaign non-white voters may have the answer. here s a part of what some of the callers and the popular morning radio program, the breakfast club had to say after the verdict faster, like trump s 30 trust the system at all. i feel their railroad and body system and you see that when she walked in the courtroom to be guilty, you gonna be guilty? how can anybody blackboard provide it trump? were you i d rather have president wright, who s going to be honest and show me a whole, then have a president who s going to allow me to try to get me up, to get my vote breakfast club, host charlemagne, the god is going to join me in just a moment in the most recent poll of battleground states, which included third-party candidates, biden had only 49% support
immediately energized is base in the first 24 hours his campaign says that they raised nearly $53 million a third of that from new donors owners on the other hand, we now have the first post verdict poll. it was conducted by reuters and the two days after trump s conviction, it says that 10% of republican registered voters say they are now less likely to vote for trump 35% said they were more likely to support trump 56% said it would have no impact. in erase that has long been within the margin of error, that 10% of doubt looms large, yet these poles of likely support actually don t show many trump voters switching their vote to biden as 538. nathaniel wreckage recently put it on average, trump loses six points of support after a conviction is taken into account, but biden gains only one point someone else or undecided gains five points joining me now, the rage and cage and james carville, the legendary democratic strategist, who ran bill clinton s night 18, 92 winning
what s your thought? yeah, i agree with you, michael, i think the color here are the viewer makes a good point, which is the jury form e, the jury doesn t write an essay. here are the reasons for her verdict. you just check a box, but i ve done cases like this where there they re subcomponents to the charge i used to do racketeering cases and you have to prove a certain number of racketeering act and we he would ask the jury in the forum which of these racketeering act do you find proven unanimously or not a so that the jury will be able to tell us specifically how they made their finding b. so the defendant has noticed and see silver covered on appeal. and now this is going to be an appeal issue that frankly, prosecutors but have avoided if they just said, hey, jury, tell us the specific one of those three menu options which you chose well said elie honig. thank you. appreciate you thanks, michael. all right. stone account more of your best and worst social media comments, don