special counsel prosecutors prove he understood the gravity of the situation and demonstrated intent to obstruct the efforts to get those records. evan, let s just start with you and first let s just show the calender. number one, the fbi served a search warrant. we all know that. the president served a legally and obtained warrant and the washington post says it was a day before trump aides were moving some documents there. prosecutors separately been told by more than one witness trump at times kept classified documents out in the open at his florida office where people can see them. and people familiar with the matter said and sometimes showed them to people including aides and visitors. the significance in trying to build a case is what? well, there s two pieces here. one part of the case is to show or to try to prove that the president, the former president willfully mishandled classified
just look at this question we asked. most americans feel would it be a setback or a disaster if biden won the presidency again. 66% say that about president biden, 56% say that about president trump, 44% specifically say disaster 5% setback if it s trump. the country s in a folk after covid with inflation, other issues. so that s any candidate is foiting through this funk. yeah, i think there s a feeling by the american people the political system is feeling steal. they ve seen this game, the brinksmanship on the debt ceiling, seen these fights over and over again. you also have a country that deals with gun violence repeatedly and then capitol hill can do very little about it. i think the system of we re running the same cycle over and over again is exhausting for voters. and i think if you re a voter you re looking at the top of the ticket thinking to yourself these guys are responsible for the fact i m feeling this way, and, you know, donald trump had
us. let s first listen to something he said to our colleague kaitlan collins during the cnn town hall when she asked him did he show them to people. did you ever show those classified dumts to anyone? not really, i would have the right to. what do you mean not really? thought that i can think of. i don t have anything. i have no classified documents. and by the way they become automatically declassified when i took them. the back part we know he did have classified documents and there s a process. a president can declassify things, but to the idea if you know trump s defense. he says he doesn t remember doing it or not really, but if the defense is, yeah, i had these and i just thought it was cool, a keepsake. and i showed them to the guys in my office, is that a defense? that s not a defense at all. what prosecutors have to prove here he had them in his office and had criminal intent.
complicated mas strauno would complicate flipping their seat. a brand new cnn poll finds 60% of americans support stricter gun laws, that number though about the same since the survey taken last summer in the wake of the school shooting in uvalde, texas. 54% of americans say they think stricter gun laws would reduce gun related deaths. and a source familiar with his plans tells cnn the north dakota republican governor set to make an announcement on june 7th. that announcement we are told could be a run for president. cnn previously reporting the governor seriously considering jumping into the 2024 race. hope you have a peaceful weekend. cnn news central starts right now. two members of the far right extremist group are being
a new cnn polling shows president biden has some real troublings in his own party has he ramps up his re-election efforts. now, to be crystal clear there is no threat, zero threat to the president s renomination at the moment. but take a look just 60% of democrats and voters who lean democratic list president biden as their first choice to be the party s 2024 nominee, longer than long shot challengers together for the first choice of nearly 3 in 10 democrats, and 8% of democrats and democratic leaners say they would prefer someone else to top the ticket. and the president offense overall political standing as you see there is in a rough place at the moment. 35% of americans now say they have a favorable opinion of the president. that s down from 40% earlier this year and down more than 20 points since the beginning of his term. our white house correspondent