ahead, count down to debate day. new details on how president biden is preparing for the high stakes moment and contrast he is drawing with an increasingly unhinged opponent. setting the stage for a major week at the supreme court. now sounds from the exclusive conversation with vice president kamala harris. her message two years after fall of roe. grab your coffee and settle in. welcome to the weekend. get ready for a blockbuster week in american politics. it s a week that could change the landscape of the 2024 presidential election. wednesday, supreme court is set to release a new round of opinions. there are 14 cases left to decide including donald trump s immunity claim to get him out of legal trouble for trying to steal an election. thursday president biden and trump will meet for first presidential debate of the 2020 race 2024 race. it feels like daja vu. for a lot of voters it is. tomorrow also marks two years since supreme court gutted right for women to make
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good morning and welcome to the saturday edition of morning joe weekend. it was a really busy week. let s get to some of the conversations you may have missed. gag order in donald trump s hush money case is an effect, but his attorney said, they will keep fighting to get it thrown out. that comes after new york s top court declined to hear trump s appeal of the matter earlier this week. the state court appealed trump s thing, there was no constitutional grounds for the appeal. that leaves the gag order imposed by judge juan mershon in place meaning, he could still face penalties in place for violating it. the order bars trump from going after witnesses, jurors, and others who were involved in the case. following his felony conviction last month, the sentencing is scheduled for july 11th. so, i guess first of all, do you expect this gag order to be put back before the sentencing? i don t, but maybe there is reason for it. and then, what do you expect for the sentencing?
debate. and then disaster mode, wildfires in new mexico prompt action from president biden while tens of millions of americans battle a brutal heat wave. good friday morning. it is 10:00 eastern, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york, and we begin with breaking news this hour at the supreme court where we are expecting more decisions any moment with 19 cases still undecided, including the biggest one of all, donald trump s immunity argument. let s go right to nbc s julia ainsley live outsides supreme court this morning. julia, the clock s ticking until the end of the term. what should we expect this morning? reporter: that s right, we know we should be getting multiple cases today. this is likely the second to last week of this term, so we expect all these decisions to be made at least by the end of next week. you mentioned the big one, ana, that s whether or not former president trump can claim presidential immunity in the election interference case given his role in
very good to be with you. i m alex witt in for katy tur. what jack smith s case, that is the question being batted around before judge aileen cannon in court today as major questions about her own role in the trial hang over proceedings. there is still no trial date in sight. instead, to the frustration of many, cannon is hearing out what several legal experts have called another long shot argument to dismiss charges against the former president. yesterday, the new york times reported cannon rejected urges from two federal judges that she not take the case when it was firsthanded to her last june. the question is why, when a huge chunk of her rulings have drawn criticism from the prosecution and legal scholars. is it inexperience, she was only on the bench just over a year. is it potential bias? she has shown unusual favor to trump by intervening in the mar-a-lago investigation before he was indicted or is it simply judge cannon s way of proceeding over such a high stakes h