indictment, attorney general merrick garland is voicing support for special counsel jack smith. we ll show you his new remarks. plus new polling shows that trump s support among republicans is standing strong despite his mounting legal troubles. we ll break down those new numbers. and the judge handling trump s classified documents case, aileen canon, is coming under new scrutiny for having very little trial experience. that new reporting and so much more is straight ahead. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, june 15th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. for the first time since donald trump s federal indictment, we re now hearing from attorney general merrick garland. speaking to reporters yesterday, garland declined to answer questions about the case, but he defended special counsel jack smith, the man that he appointed to lead the investigation into the former president. so as you know i can t talk about particulars o
the senate projects debate between iowa republican senator joni ernst and new hampshire democratic senator jeanne shaheen. the debate and conversation streamed live on fox nation today. designed to facilitate substantive discussion of policy and hopes of finding areas of agreement or common ground. we will have highlights from that event a little later in the show. bret: breaking tonight, former president donald trump is in florida this evening ahead of his appearance, his court appearance tomorrow afternoon in miami. he faces a 37 count indictment, including obstruction and how he handled classified documents. correspondent griff jenkins is in miami with the latest. vening, griff. griff: good evening, bret. the former president is here in miami, expected to be meeting this evening with his new legal team and despite the political bluster, bret, he is fully aware of the seriousness of these charges. the first former president to ever face formal criminal charges landing
and yet they go after a popular president, a president that got more votes than any sitting president in the history of our country by far and did much better the second time in the election than the first. to go after him on a box hoax just like the russia hoax and all of the others. it s been going on for seven years. they cannot stop because its election interference at the highest level. there is never been anything like what has happened. i am an innocent man and an innocent person. they had the molar hoax, the mueller report. no collusion after two and a half years. that was settled by hillary clinton and democrats. this is what they do. this is what they do so well. if they would devote their energies to honesty and integrity it would be a lot better for our country. they could do a lot better and could do a lot of great things. now untruth social he also wrote, quote, the corrupt biden administration has informed my attorneys that i have been indicted seemingly over
served. with us to start off our coverage, nbc news white house correspondent, monica alba, at the washington national cathedral, melissa murray, a former law clerk to sotomayor, and laura jarrett, and presidential historian, michael beshlash. reporter: josé, we will hear from the late justice s son in addition to her biographer. as you will hear from president biden and chief justice john roberts, it s remarkable because both of them really first met her in 1981. john roberts was working in the reagan administration, in the white house, he was helping to prepare her for her confirmation hearing, and then, of course, senator biden was somebody questioning her as part of the process, and who engaged with her and even told her that she should use the fact that she was going to be this trailblazer, this first woman to serve as a supreme court justice as something she could use to go out and push the equal rights amendment forward, for instance, and that s something sandra day
harris: the heavy weight of a crashing presidency in the polls. president biden reportedly agitated and suddenly starting to care about what americans are saying about him. well, who could ignore voters signaling that bidenomics is a bust? and they are not better off under this president. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. a new fox survey shows the economy by far is the most important issue to voters. it usually is. and the word of the day for voters right now is pain. pain over stubbornly high prices under a president who tells them it is not happening. the average american is not benefiting economically, people are sad about how things are happening at our federal government? i do most of the shopping in my home. the prices were through the roof. when i sat down and looked at what they are telling me inflation was 6%, 8%, 10%, i roughly say for me it was 30, 35% easy. growing food and gas prices. again especially new york city has been a chall