and she s so amazing thanks so much for joining us this afternoon. it ll be sad to say goodbye to pat sajak, but you can say hello to jake tapper is the leader starts right now the themes of the 2024 race today, democracy and revenge, the lead starts right now starkly different messages from two starkly different men, president biden s warning about democracy on the world stage, while donald trump to gain much more personal approach, plus a dramatic turn in the hunter biden gun trial defense scrapping. it s witness list on some level, leaving one major question about the case, yet to be answered. and the judge presiding over one of the most consonant sequential cases in america described as isolated in an experience with judge aileen cannon is really up against as she takes on the criminal classified documents case against donald trump welcome to the lead. i m phil mattingly info jake tapper. it s friday. we start with our world lead and president biden today drawing on the
Nats candidates walking in. Or introductions. Etc the top eight polling republicans in milwaukee debating for the 4th time bush r president ial candidate i got about four minutes last debate im gonna get my question right now. The debate honing in on jobs, taxes, International Issues and the economy. Cruz there are irs code than there not one of them is as candidates minimum wage. Donald trump says no to raising it. Ben carson after supporting the raise at an earlier debate. President ial candidate every time we raise the minimum wage, the number of jobless people increases. Carson also making light of this past week of scrutiny over his life stories. Ben carson r president ial candidate asking what i said in appreciate that. The exchanges. Though. Heating up over immigration. Jeb bush and john kasich challenging undocumented gov. John kasich r president ial candidate we all know you cant pick them up and ship them back across the border. Trump i dont have to hear from this man trump a
They are all here helping us break this down. Unfortunately, this microphone is now on my person. How about we get to some first word news with vonnie quinn. Vonnie thank you. Tog an end to serious syrias war, the talks will begin next month. The talks dont mention the syrian president , western power wants about but the russian power back him. The International Organization for migration is saying that the total is four times higher than oft year, for fifth 4 5 them arrive by c. Encourages the private sector to offer humanitarian aid. Ted cruz is gaining on donald trump in the race. He is four Percentage Points behind. Their rivals are far back from them. Voting starts six weeks from now in iowa. Brees. Ilestone for drew he has given 60,000 career yards, more than four miles. That is your first word update. Matt taking a look at the Index Futures, you can see not a lot of movement this morning. If you look at what happened overnight in asian stocks, we had a little bit of a lift after
The big question will we see more players kneeling after new tweets by the president. Out of prison, released from las vegas after serving nine years for robbery. What he faces on the outside. The president s visit two days from going to puerto rico. A trump tax plan a number of Administration Officials trying to defend what they call tax breaks for the wealthy. We begin with this breaking news. O. J. Simpson is a free man. The Nevada Department of corrections released a photograph just before his release. In july the nfl hall of famer served nine years of a 33 year sentence. Joe an early good morning to you. We knew simpson could be released this weekend just didnt know when, right . Thats right. We didnt know if it was going to be this weekend. A lot of talk was this would happen on monday at the earliest because typically the staff is not releasing someone on a weekend because in a normal situation he would have come back here to the vegas situation, gone to Parole Office here, sign
She s allowing several outside parties to have time for arguments at an upcoming hearing about the validity of special counsel, jack smith s appointment phil, i will note she s been tough in the trump case, but this is actually a trend with her when attorney that our teams spoke with said she doesn t like the government to come in and play bully steamroller. so there s that side of it that she s tough on the government, but others have said that she actually seems to be giving trump better their treatment than they ve seen other criminal defendants get. so overall fill judge aileen cannon facing a lot of pressure, a lot of criticism and as this case moves forward, there are questions as to how slowly it will continue to go, especially as it looks like we will not see a trial before election day. yeah. it seems that way very in-depth reporting from our team, cnn, josh snyder, thanks so much. let s talk more about this with law professor jeff swartz. he s a former miami-dade county c